Object number
56/346
Description
A full-barrel type mole trap designed to be placed in mole runs. Found at 'Bendy's Stores', an Ironmongers in Northbrook Street, Newbury.
This wooden, full-barrel type mole trap was designed to be placed in mole runs. It is a form of mole trap popular with Scottish mole catchers before World War II. This particular trap was found in the attic of 'Bendy's Stores', an Ironmongers in Northbrook Street, Newbury. There are pencil markings on the trap, reading 'B/W // 8 1/2'.
Physical description
1 mole trap: wood; metal; good condition
Archival history
MERL miscellaneous note - 'a wooden full-barrel mole trap // the full-barrel trap, known as the 'Perfection' and made by Scott of Edinburgh a few years ago. It is now generally considered obselete, but was favoured strongly by Scottish professional mole-catchers before World War II. It functioned like a double box snare, except that the box was barrel-shaped. The snares, when set, fitted into grooves in the inner surface of the barrel, and the spring, a long wire one with a coil at its end, was fastened to the barrel. // The full-barrel trap had one special advantage over other kinds in that it fully enclosed the snares. This meant that the openings and spaces in which the snares were going to do their work could not be fouled by settling earth (illustration, p 103). // [insert] Bateman, Traps and Trapping // 56/346 // 56/160 - broken [end insert]'
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- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_1752.tif - High resolution image
