United States Patent No. 229426 Fencing Foil by B E De Tuscan (1942) Frame Style:Bourbon Frame A View of Yerba Buena

A View of Yerba Buena

rendered in the sober portraiture reserved for officers whose victories were measured in muddy Arkansas miles rather than Eastern headlines

drawn while the wreckage was still smoldering and the wires still humming

where the Republic announced its arrival as a cultural power by housing palms beneath a dome wider than any built before it

his likeness drawn from the years when temperance pieties and Indian Removal debates shared the same Senate floor

United States Patent No. 229426 Fencing Foil by B E De Tuscan (1942) Frame Style:Bourbon Frame A View of Yerba BuenaUnited States Patent No. 229426 Fencing Foil by B E De Tuscan (1942) reads like a duelist's blueprint De Tuscan's diagram dissects the foil into pommel, grip, and tapered blade with the precision of a fencing master who knew that a weapon's balance lives in millimeters. Filed in the wartime forties, when Olympic salles still echoed with French commands, the schematic renders a sport of ritual and reflex in the cool geometry of the patent office. About