This button attacher kit was made by the Dennison Company in Framingham, Massachusetts, early 1970s. It is a Dennison Buttoneer Attacher Kit, in a black faux crocodile embossed case. The case contains a plastic handled attacher and assorted plastic filaments. The case is embossed:

Dennison Buttoneer Kit

(with plastic letters)

ARB

This is a hand-held plastic device with a handle on one end and a needle on the other. It uses a strip of small plastic fasteners that are loaded into the handle chamber and inserted through a button and material, fastening them together without using a needle and thread.

This object features U.S. Patent #3470834, dated October 7, 1969, by Arnold R. Bone, for a fastener attaching device.

Arnold R. Bone (July 26, 1913 - August 9, 2001) was an engineer, inventor, gunsmith, string instrument bowmaker. He grew up in South Ryegate, Vermont, and graduated from Wentworth Institute in 1935. After graduation, Bone worked at Irwin Auger Bit Company in Wilmington, Ohio before returning to Wentworth to teach Navy machinist mates during World War II until 1944. The final part of his career, Bone worked at Dennison Mfg. Company in Framingham (now Avery Dennison) when he retired in 2000.

Arnold R. Bone held numerous patents at Dennison, including several for the Swiftacher, the device for attaching tags to clothing with a nylon filament. His ubiquitous fasteners are still used today. Bone applied his engineering and master craftsman skills to making string instrument bows, and also became one of the world's most respected experts on repair and restoration of fine bows. His customers ranged from young students to members of professional ensembles such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and bows were shipped to him from all over the world.