Object number
51/335
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Description
An auger is a boring tool used in a variety of woodworking trades to bore long deep holes. It consists of an iron shank with a T-shaped handle at one end and a boring device at the other. The shell auger has a half-cylinder blade with an in-bent horizontal cutter on the nose, and was used by wheelwrights to enlarge holes previously bored in wagon hubs. This auger was made by T. Turner & Co. around 1860, and was bought from R. Middleton & Sons' wheelwrights workshop in Eddington, Hungerford.
Physical description
1 shell auger: metal shank and blade; wooden handle; large
Archival history
MERL ‘Associated information’ form – ‘Name of Object: // Age…: c. 1860 // Name and address of present owner: Middleton // Description of use to which it was put…: Mercer calls this a reame [or reamer?] used by wheelwrights to enlarge holes previously bored in wagon hubs by side pairing’
Production date
1825-01-01 - 1874-12-31
Production period
Mid-nineteenth century
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