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Two patent drawings of leather work gloves, one right-hand with a pronged metal husking-pin riveted across the palm, both studded with circular leather disks on the fingers, palm, and thumb, plus a separate detail drawing of the thumb showing the dense rivet cluster.

CORN-HUSKING GLOVESJames Peters · June 19, 1877

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