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A pair of scissor-style metal tongs with rounded, button-shaped jaws, red-painted shanks and loop handles wrapped in grayish fibrous cord. Tools of this pattern were heated and used to press seams, and the wrapping shielded the hand from the heat.
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- Product in the AsbestosClaims.Law collection
- Asbestos
- Owner's identification of the handle wrapping; not marked as asbestos and not tested.
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- ACL Doc 14717 · asbestosclaims.law/library/14717
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