Rivet set, Hancock, MA

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Object ID:

1959.11083.1

Community:

Massachusetts, Hancock

Makers

V. and B. Company

Description

A steel rivet set used in sheet metal work. The set has two parallel faces which are stamped or cast with a cross-hatch pattern and two rounded, smooth sides which expand 21/32" across flat faces to 25/32" at working end. Near the working end, there is a 7/32" diameter hole, about 3/8" deep. There is another 5/32" diameter hole in the working end that intersects the side hole (about 11/32" deep). Next to this hole in the end is a hemispherical concavity about 5/16" diameter about 1/16" deep.

Massachusetts Hancock

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