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Comment on Keeping It All Together: Paper Fasteners at the National Archives by mlingenfelter

mlingenfelter — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:03:10 +0000

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Comment on Keeping It All Together: Paper Fasteners at the National Archives by Vicky McCargar

Vicky McCargar — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:13:11 +0000

My fastener lore includes those at Associated Press in New York. Newsprint wirecopy off the ticker went onto desktop spikes (causing occasional stigmata) and was later bundled into stacks with heavy wire. The bundles, with their prominent central holes, went into cubbyholes for awhile and eventually the basement archives. For their yellow, crumbling color and texture, shape and wires, they’re known as bales of hay.

Comment on Constitution 225: Fractions and ratifications by Chas Jones

Chas Jones — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 06:38:20 +0000

Listed above you include 2 options for proposing of amendments, 2/3rds of both House and Senate OR 2/3rds of the State legislatures. However, Article V of the constitution says 2/3rds of House and Senate OR at a convention when called for by 2/3rds of the State legislatures. Would you please explain this discrepancy?

Comment on Keeping It All Together: Paper Fasteners at the National Archives by Audra

Audra — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:34:31 +0000

Oh man, that last sentence… you had to go there, didn’t you? I guess puns ARE a staple of blog posts….

Comment on Keeping It All Together: Paper Fasteners at the National Archives by Susie Robertshaw

Susie Robertshaw — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:12:26 +0000

Great article! I remember lots of those, and I’m sure we have many still on our shelves, since we are academics near retirement. Here’s another fastener from a science fiction short story: “Polemicus Adzegrinder admired the story as he coupled together the crisp charnelfilm sheets with the head segment of a fastener bug.” I wonder how that fastener would hold up over time?

Comment on Keeping It All Together: Paper Fasteners at the National Archives by Barbara Austen

Barbara Austen — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:27:30 +0000

How timely this article was! We were just discussing a fastener we discovered that we had never seen before. It is a piece of heavy brass foil, square with domed top that is folded over the corner of the pages being fastened together. The foil is embossed with the words “Victor Pat 1904″. Maybe we need to send this bit to the Early Office Museum–they don’t seem to have a sample of this particular fastener. A new discovery??

Comment on Keeping It All Together: Paper Fasteners at the National Archives by Kris

Kris — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:04:05 +0000

Great post, Alan! I had a nightmare about deteriorating rubber bands once. That’s when I knew I’d found my proper career.

Comment on Keeping It All Together: Paper Fasteners at the National Archives by Carrie Goeringer

Carrie Goeringer — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 10:05:34 +0000

I love the fasteners too, especially the pre-WWII variety.

Comment on Keeping It All Together: Paper Fasteners at the National Archives by Tim Duskin

Tim Duskin — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 20:46:13 +0000

The most memorable fasteners I have ever removed were staples from captured German records from World War II. They were the toughest staples, and the toughest to remove, that I have ever encountered. I will never forget them.

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