Dental Plugger
name: label: maker
content: Sniff, Alta Belle
label: maker
content: Snow & Lewis
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for George B. Snow and Theodore G. Lewis, “Improvement in Dental Pluggers,” U.S. Patent 59284 (Oct. 30, 1866; reissue Aug. 22, 1876). 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. The following year they, along with E. T. Whitney and George E. Hayes, formed the Buffalo Dental Manufacturing Co.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Buffalo
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-04199
label: catalog number
content: M-04199
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 59,284
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Plugger
label: Object Name
content: plugger, patent model
label: Object Name
content: dental instrument
label: Other Terms
content: Plugger; Plugger, Automatic, Snow and Lewis; Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 17.5 cm x 1.5 cm; x 6 7/8 in x 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 5/8 in; x 17.78 cm x 1.5875 cm