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Wire Tool.  A tool used by sculptors to shape soft materials or plaster when making a model. In effect it is a heavy bent wire on the end of a handle for carving clay, plasteline or wax.

excerpted with permission from

An Encyclopedia of Coin and Medal Technology

For Artists, Makers, Collectors and Curators

COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY D. WAYNE JOHNSON

Roger W. Burdette, Editor