Object number
60/90
Description
Tool from Mr T. Harris of Witheridge Farm in Hailey, Oxfordshire. Found on a shelf with lathe tools and other wood-turning tools.
This tool came from the workshop of Mr T. Harris of Witheridge Farm in Hailey, Oxfordshire. It was found on a shelf with lathe tools and other wood-turning tools. It has been suggested that it may be a mortising knife, used instead of a chisel to cut mortices, but is not of the traditional shape. The tool has an oval wooden handle and a slightly bent blade with a knife edge and blunt end, and a semi-circular hole.
Physical description
1 knife: metal and wood
Archival history
MERL miscellaneous note, Greta Bertram, 10 January 2013 – Mr T. Harris had a smithy at Witheridge Farm in Hailey, Oxfordshire. Upon his death in February 1960, his daughter, Mrs M. K. Fenn, donated a large number of his tools to the Museum. Mr Harris had previously donated a number of objects to the Museum in 1952 and 1956.
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- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_4748.tif - High resolution image
