Dental Plugger
name: label: maker
content: Buffalo Dental Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Dental plugger with “B.D.M. Co.” and “Nov. 20, 1866” and “no. 2356” and “Snow & Lewis, Buffalo, N. Y.” inscriptions. George B. Snow (1835-1923) and Theodore G. Lewis (1836-1920) were dentists in Buffalo, N.Y., who formed a partnership in 1866 and began manufacturing dental mallets. In 1867 they joined with E. T. Whitney and George E. Hayes to form the Buffalo Dental Manufacturing Co.
label: Description
content: Ref: G. B. Snow and T. G. Lewis, “Improvement in Dental Plugging-Instruments,” U.S. Patent 59,784 (Nov. 20, 1866).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-08713
label: catalog number
content: M-08713
label: accession number
content: 218383
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ?
label: Object Name
content: automatic plugger
label: Other Terms
content: ?; Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 1/2 in x 7 1/8 in; 1.27 cm x 1.27 cm x 18.0975 cm