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These pincers were used by a saddler and cobbler in Yattendon, Berkshire, who had worked there from 1901 until the early 1960s. 'Lasting pincers', a shoemaker's tool with downwards-curving serrated jaws, used for straining leather uppers over the last.

1 pair of pincers: metal

Letter, Miss F. Palmer to Mr Higgs, 2nd May 1962 - 'Our village Saddler + cobbler Mr Burnham has just died. He had had the shop here since 1901 and his father was also a saddler in Reading...', R. A. Salaman, 1986, ‘Dictionary of leather-working tools, c.1700-1950: and the tools of allied trades’, p.52/146.

1901 - 1962