Stone dresser
notes: label: Description
content: This cast-iron stone dressing tool, or dresser, is used for finishing and polishing stones. It has six wheels on its head and has the cast markings, “DESMOND-STEPHAN Co. URBANA, O HEX NO 2PAT USA.” This took would have been useful for stone work or masonry, as well as sharpening and finishing other objects and tools. Desmond-Stephan Manufacturing Company is based in Urbana, Ohio, and manufactures grinding wheel dressers like this object. They offer a wide variety of dressers, from the star-tooth cutter type to precision dressers.
label: Description
content: This object was accessioned from Arlindo A. Leonetti, a locksmith and cutlery-sharpener based in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Arlindo grew up learning these trades from his father, Dominick, who immigrated to the United States and started a cutlery-sharpening business. Arlindo followed in his fathers footsteps, owning and operating his own shop for fifty-two years. He was notably a WWII enlistee who was captured by German forces and escaped twice.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Associated Place
content: United States: New Jersey, Atlantic City
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Arlindo A. Leonetti
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0621.02
label: accession number
content: 1984.0621
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0621.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dressing Tool
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 in x 3 1/2 in x 3 in; 38.1 cm x 8.89 cm x 7.62 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall - from catalog card: 3 in x 3 5/8 in x 14 in; 7.62 cm x 9.2075 cm x 35.56 cm