Dental Plugger
notes: label: Description
content: This, an improved version of the dental plugger introduced by Snow & Lewis in 1866, was touted as “The Most Popular and Efficient Dental Instrument Ever Offered to the Profession.” An inscription reads “G. B. Snow / Buffalo, N. Y. / Pat. June 8, 1880 / No. 400.”
label: Description
content: Ref: George B. Snow, “Dental Plugger,” U.S. Patent Reissue 9248 (June 8, 1880), assigned to the Buffalo Dental Manufacturing Co.
label: Description
content: Ad for The Snow & Lewis Automatic Plugger in The Dental Advertiser 12 (1881): 20.
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-08717
label: catalog number
content: M-08717
label: accession number
content: 218383
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dental coll object
label: Object Name
content: plugger, automatic
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 1/2 in; 15.24 cm x 1.27 cm