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GUSN-197870
Small wooden square with a yellow label on top with black writing. On the back of the wooden square is a 5x5 grid of copper tacks that are numbered 26-50 with 5 tacks missing.
tacks
copper (metal)
primary wood
Tack
"1 SET / SOLID COPPER SCREEN / OR DOOR NUMERAL TACKS / 26 TO 50 / DIRECTIONS FOR USE: / Put One on window sill or door / frame and a corresponding / number on article removed. / ATLAS TACK CORPORATION / MADE IN U.S.A." (Black writing on yellow label)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
2003.1.25
Unknown
1/2 x 2 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.2429
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