January 5, 1897

Inventor Henry C. Gibson was granted patent number 574,534 for a box-style turkey call that eventually was called the Gibson Turkey Box. It was the first box-style turkey call patented in the United States and was produced for decades, with advertisements appearing as late as 1921.

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