Définition

• Plaster Tool.  Any of several tools used by sculptors to carve the plaster model of a medallic or numismatic design. Such tools shape the design by removing plaster, in contrast to modeling tools (as a boaster, used with clay) to shape the design.

  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

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