Object Details
- Description
- Dental plugger with “B.D.M. Co.” and “Nov. 20, 1866” and “no. 2356” and “Snow & Lewis, Buffalo, N. Y.” inscriptions. 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. In 1867 they joined with E. T. Whitney and George E. Hayes to form the Buffalo Dental Manufacturing Co.
- Ref: G. B. Snow and T. G. Lewis, “Improvement in Dental Plugging-Instruments,” U.S. Patent 59,784 (Nov. 20, 1866).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Buffalo Dental Manufacturing Company
- Credit Line
- Gift of University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry
- Measurements
- overall: 1/2 in x 1/2 in x 7 1/8 in; 1.27 cm x 1.27 cm x 18.0975 cm
- Object Name
- ?
- automatic plugger
- Other Terms
- ?; Dentistry
