Lawn Edger I

English. 20C. Ransomes Edge Trimmer. Ipswich. England. Steel and wood. Green and Red paint. Ref: W Haynes Reading. Garden & Estate Guide 1933. p11. Ref: Carters 1926.
In 1826 in the first volume of ‘The Gardeners Magazine’, Charles M’Intosh described a new Edging Iron of his invention with a coulter or cutting edge fixed to a wheeled frame. In the same year a French annual ‘Le Bon Jardinier’ illustrated a verge cutter consisting of a cutting wheel on a straight handle. IN 1880 a wheeled edger with shears was patented by P Adie.