Object number
96/84
Description
A hook used for harvesting crops. The blade is stamped with the inscription 'ENCLOSED 1917'.
This is a hook with a turned wooden handle and a ferrule. The blade is fixed right through the handle and held with a metal washer. The blade is stamped with the inscription 'ENCLOSED 1917'. The object was used for harvesting.
Physical description
1 hook: wood and metal; good condition
Archival history
MERL Miscellaneous note-Georgia Charitou- 27 October 2014- This collection of tools 96/81-96/90 belonged to the donor's father, George Ernest Brown, and grandfather, Charles Lesley Brown. The Browns were a well known family of shop keepers in Bramley. The business was started by Mrs Monger's great- grandfather, also George Ernest Brown, who moved to Bramley to Sonning in c. 1898. He set up a shop selling promisions, bread etc. He kept pigs and sold bacon. The shop expanded and became the principle supplier of goods in and around Bramley. The shop continued to run until the 1960's. The premises have since been converted to offices. Mrs Monger's father, George Ernest Brown, ran a petrol station in Bramley from 1958-1979. The premises are now used as estate agents.
Production date
1917 - 1917
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