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Marked Pullers. Top - BUFFUM TOOL CO. LOUISIANA MO., 6 ¼ inches long. 2nd

down -

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MOUND

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ST. LOUIS 1. The 1 indicates the size, which is 6 ½ inches long. 3rd

down - same as

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MOUND

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above without a size number. It is 9 ½ inches long. 4th

down - DURA HOOK #1 PAT. NO. 2,066,598. It is 7 ½ inches long. Bottom - DURA

HOOK PAT. NO. 2,066,598. It is 19 inches long. All but the Buffum are flexible, and all

are right-handed.

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Courtesy of Bob Roger.

Bob Roger wrote, ―

Not Packing Pullers. These are 7 and 9 inches long, right-handed

worms. I got these from Peter Hoefer, and he said they were 18th Century or early 19th

Century, Italian, used for wine tasting (I think to pull the spile out, get a sample, and

then a new spile was driven in the hole. The hole was originally bored by a wine fret or

pointeau

). Note the two different styles of handle - one a single L shape, the other an

attached loose bar that becomes an L shape when turned.

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Courtesy of Bob Roger.