Oldest design patent?

I went searching through the US patent site, looking for the oldest design patent I could find. The oldest one I could dig up in the database was from October 1858 for a locket. The designer is Albert C Randall of Providence Rhode Island. Was this the beginning of the prominence of Providence? It's hard to be certain that this is the oldest jewelry design patent, since the really old patents are often classified in unusual ways, but this is the oldest that is classified in the basic jewelry category.

Here's the drawing from the patent



It is described as "a new and ornamental design for lockets usually worn to decorate the person ..... the design consists of embellishing the sides...(some words are hard to make out)..valise formed lockets or charms for containing hair, likenesses and other souvenirs, with clusters of flowers or foliage ...and nail heads at their ends in such a manner as to give an ornamental finish and appearance...the configuration ..at the center consists of a stem, on which are formed flowers and other foliage of a corresponding ornamental character and the corners of the spaces between the ....bands and nail heads are adorned and relieved from their sameness by smaller configurations or chasings of flowers similar to those situated in the center and the sides of the locket or charm are thus made to present a simple, chaste and highly ornamental appearance in keeping with the objects for which the locket or charm is designed"

I have to say I love the "simple, chaste and highly ornamental" description! I did do a quick search to see if I could find any other patents by A. C. Randall at that time, but i did not see any. However, the only way to search these really old patents by designer name is with the Google patent search which relies on the computer being able to interpret text. Handwritten cursive text would be unlikely to be correctly interpreted. And in fact this particular patent is not listed on Google.