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Adjustable leather strap

Line drawing of a metal hand corn-husker with forked concave claws strapped over a hand by an adjustable leather band, shown both worn on the hand and as a standalone plate.

HAND CORN-HUSKER.Robert Caldwell McMinn · August 12, 1884

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