Master Plier toggle action pliers
date: label: date made
content: ca 1924
name: label: Maker
content: Master Plier Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A pair of steel pliers used by telegraph maintenance crews to repair lines. Stamped on side: "Master Plier Corporation - Chicago / Pat. 10-2-23 / Master / Tools". Tag on object reads: "Recd 3-4-55 / Asst Forman / Oscar Audet / 101 State St / Newbury Port / Mass"; and "Toggle-action / pliers / 55-09". This tool was sent to the Western Union Museum in 1955 by Oscar Audet (1894-1956) of Newburyport, MA. The reference is for US Patent 1469306, "Pliers," issued 2 October 1923 to Elias August Kauffman." Kauffman emigrated from Germany in 1913 and became a US citizen in 1927.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Western Union Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.333434
label: accession number
content: 294351
label: collector/donor number
content: 55-09
label: accession number
content: 294351
label: catalog number
content: 333434
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pliers, Lineman'S
label: Object Name
content: electrical pliers
label: Object Name
content: lineman's tool
label: Object Name
content: pliers
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 5/8 in x 8 5/8 in; 3.81 cm x 1.5875 cm x 21.9075 cm