Object number
51/94
Collection
Description
A metal crook with no handle. Its small size indicates it is a crook for lambs.
Physical description
Lamb Crook: metal, good condition.
Archival history
Citation in publication [H. J. Massingham, 'Country Relics' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1939)] –'I have two crooks, one from Telscombe in Sussex. Judging by its design, it came not from the village blacksmith but from one of the three great Sussex centres of crook-making, Pyecombe, Kingston, or Falmer. // In the crook - the "shepherd's long arm" as one of them called it in my hearing - they affect the space between "guide" and barrel, the sweep of the ogee line between them and the number of curves at the tip of the trunk (the "guide") at the end. Some have as many as three of four circles, though my own is more modest in this ornamental flourish, while the Gloucestershire crook is usually thickened at the tip into a full-stop. Crooks may be made of brass, or a sawn-off gun-barrel, or, as among the older types like my own, of wrought iron... // My other crook is from Wessex and, being fitted into the crook-stick (which is of wider circumference in consequence) by a spike, is made of iron. Local variation does not stop there. The line of the Wessex crook is not so flowing as that of the Sussex one, the guide is more tightly curled and the barrel does not dip with the same freedom.' (pp.129-130) [see also 51/133, 51/134], MERL list / description [Massingham Collection, October 1989] – 'ACC. NO.: 51/94 // NAME: CROOK // NEG NO.: 35/27, 35/50 // STORAGE: '
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External document
- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\35 series negatives\Scans\35_27.tif - High resolution image
- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\35 series negatives\Scans\35_50.tif - High resolution image
