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98/47/1
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Description
A firmer chisel, used for general carpentry and joinery work and strong enough to be used with a mallet. It is stamped with the name of the manufacturer, ‘WARD Cast Steel’, and with the name of a previous owner, ‘J. Gill’. The chisel is part of a collection of woodworking and stoneworking tools given to the Museum by Mr Stamp.
Physical description
1 chisels: meta; wood; good conditionstamped: 'WARD Cast steel'
Archival history
MERL 'Handwritten accession' form (Museum of English Rural Life) – 'Description: (1) FIRMER CHISEL: Stamped WARD Cast Steel: Maker // User: J. Gill Length 31.0 cm // A general purpose chisel with shaped back & wooden handle which has been damaged by hitting with a mallet. Brass ferrule. // (2) FIRMER CHISEL: Stamped FOREIGN. // Flat both sides with undamaged turned wooden handle: Metal ferrule. Length: 28.5 cm // (3) ? FIRMER CHISEL: Smaller & narrower with a raised triangular back to the blade. Turned wooden handle & metal ferrule. Length 20.5 cm // Dimensions: … // Associated information: See 98/44’
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