Drawing pin
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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/tag/20259
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- A drawing pin (in British English) or thumb tack (in North American English) is a short nail or pin used to fasten items to a wall or board for display and intended to be inserted by hand, usually using the thumb. A variety of names is used to refer to different designs intended for various purposes.
Thumb tacks made of brass, tin or iron may be referred to as brass tacks, brass pins, tin tacks or iron tacks, respectively.These terms are particularly used in the idiomatic expression to come (or get) down to brass (or otherwise) tacks, meaning to consider basic facts of a situation.
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Packung Reißzwecken
Als Reißzwecke wird ein...
Object information
Image: Museum Utopie und Alltag. Alltagskultur und Kunst aus der DDR - CC BY-NC-SA -
Tacksheber
Der Tacksheber dient dem...
Object information
Image: Hammerschmiede mit Bienen- und Heimatmuseum Reichenbach - CC BY-NC-SA
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