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  • Object number
    54/529
  • Description
    Nail heading tool used for making the heads of hand-forged nails. Used by the donor's father, a wheelwright in Braishfield, Hampshire.
    This is a nail heading tool, used for making the heads of hand forged nails. It consists of a curved iron bar 11 inches long with a tapering rectangular hole at one end. It was used by the donor's father, a wheelwright in Braishfield, Hampshire.
  • Physical description
    1 nail heading tool: metal; good condition
  • Archival history
    MERL 'Catalogue index' card – ‘DESCRIPTION: ‘...see 54/507'
  • Production date
    1875-01-01 - 1899-12-31
  • Production period
    Late-nineteenth century
  • Object name
    Heading tool
  • Material
    Metal
  • Associated subject
    CRAFTS : metal-working
    Wheelwrighting
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