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guide is vom Hofe's " West- 

 ern offset " style, %4 inch 

 in diameter (number 2/0), 

 priced at forty cents. The 

 same size in the " Dowagiac " 

 pattern was sold at thirty-five 

 cents. The two intermediate 

 guides are the same maker's 

 " Improved " or one-ring cast- 

 ing style, numbers I and o re- 

 spectively; price nine cents each. Abbey and Imbrie 

 used to stock phosphor-bronze revolving-center 



Agate 



' Western " 

 tip-guide 



3/0 

 6/64 



casting 



4/0 

 7/64 



3/0 

 8/64 



2/0 

 9/64 



1/0 

 10/64 



" Dowagiac " pattern agate casting tip-guide 



guides mounted like these one-ring casting-guides; 

 the idea of the revolving-center feature is that the 

 line will draw equally against all sides of the ring 

 and so will eliminate grooving. They are quite as 

 effective as agate-guides and much less liable to 

 breakage. 



