[Ads-l] Antedating of "Stapler"

[Shapiro, Fred]

stapler (OED, n.2, 1951)

According to the website officemuseum.com:

The word "stapler" was used in its modern sense by 1884. (The American Bookseller, June 2, 1884, p. 547, referring to the Novelty paper fastener as the "Novelty stapler.")

Fred Shapiro

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