Patent model for printers' pocket case for bodkins and tweezers
date: label: date made
content: ca 1867
label: patent date
content: 1867-10-29
name: label: maker
content: Quail, William
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This patent model demonstrates an invention for a combined tool in which bodkin and tweezers folded into their own handle for portability; the invention was granted patent number 70261. The bodkin (a small pointed awl) and tweezers were tools with many uses in the print shop, and always ready to the printer's hand.
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dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.89797.070261
label: patent number
content: 070261
label: accession number
content: 089797
label: catalog number
content: GA*89797.070261
objectType: label: Object Name
content: manufacture, printers pocket case
label: Object Name
content: Apparatus?
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 cm x 1 cm x 1 cm; 2 3/4 in x 3/8 in x 3/8 in