Chas. Trager Indian Pack Board

U.S. Patent No. 1,505,661 TRAPPER NELSON'S INDIAN PACK BOARDS M'F'G'D BY CHAS. TRAGER
SEATTLE WASHINGTON (EXTREMELY RARE)

This rare canvas pack board was a great find for us here at BleakHouse302 (and we find a lot of great antiques.) This item was a hiking or camping pack from the 1920s. Luckily the history of this specific pack is well-documented (see link below.) This board would've held a canvas bag of some sort. No bag is included in this sale and what you see is what you get. Just an awesome and very hard to find piece of the American great outdoors.

I would love to know where this pack as been and the places its seen. We are selling this as rustic wall decor even though the pack appears to be fully functional.

You can read all about this pack at www.historylink.org/File/10625

Here is an excerpt from the link above:

On July 31, 1922, Nelson filed a patent application with the United States Patent Office for his pack. U.S. Patent No. 1,505,661 was granted on August 19, 1924, and Canadian Patent No. 244902 came through that same year. The Trapper Nelson logo was designed, the informational folders printed, and Nelson began mailing them off to far-flung sporting-goods stores and contacting various outdoors-oriented organizations including the Boy Scouts and the U.S. Forest Service. Then Nelson hit the highway for 35 days with his wife and daughter and a carload of packs in tow, stopping at every sporting-goods shop between Seattle and San Diego, camping the whole way.
The key attribute of the pack was a simple design that distributed a load's weight fairly evenly, increased air ventilation via an empty space between its canvas jacket and a hiker's back, and made loading the pack easier via its detachable bag. One technology historian notes that "By modern standards, the pack is cruel and unusual torture, but compared to the alternatives at the time, it was a big improvement" (Shaver). Another concurs: "Though considered crude by today's standards, the Trapper Nelson represented a breakthrough in pack design" ("Packboard Restoration").

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