Tack

Object Name:

Tack

Object ID:

1976.026.05 b

Place of Origin:

Alton, NH

Date:

1880

Description:

Tacks (stair buttons). Decorative steel wire. Formed from single piece of 0.09" diameter wire. Conical point on end of shaft that raises vertically, then turns over at right angle where it is wrapped around himself almost four times. End of wire slightly beveled from being cut off. Nine buttons on display card. Card is heavy paper 0.1" thick with yellow front surface; single sheet of paper over cruder board stock. Three lines of text between the four rows of buttons and holes. Text in gold tone: "CLOUGH'S / SPIRAL STAIR BUTTONS, / PAT. DEC. 14, 1880; also Pat. throughout Europe."

Material:

Metal
Steel
Paper

Dimensions:

H-0.9 Dia-0.9 inches

Credit Line:

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Poch

Subjects:

Tacks