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Patent model for printers' pocket case for bodkins and tweezers
From the collection of National Museum of American History. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a combined tool in which bodkin and tweezers folded into their own handle for portability; the invention was granted patent number 70261. The bodkin (a small pointed awl) and tweezers were tools with many uses in the print shop, and always ready to the printer's hand.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit linePatent model for printers' pocket case for bodkins and tweezers. ca 1867. Quail, William. National Museum of American History. CC0.
