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Patent model for printers' sidesticks and quoins
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This patent model demonstrates an invention for paired sidesticks, grooved and tapered on the inside surfaces to take matching quoins; the invention was granted patent number 87339. The sticks were held together loosely by dowels.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit linePatent model for printers' sidesticks and quoins. 1869. House, Thomas J.. National Museum of American History. CC0.