Object number
51/346
Collection
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Description
This rounder plane, also referred to as a pole shave, was used at R. Middleton & Sons’ wheelwrights shop at Eddington, Hungerford, for shaving the ends of ladder rungs and poles. It consists of a rounded piece of wood, with a pair of handles and a blade set in the tapering round groove into which the pole was put. The blade was made by Rearly and Wood, Sheffield.
Physical description
1 pole shave: wood; steel blade
Production place
Sheffield
Production date
1825-01-01 - 1874-12-31
Production period
Mid-nineteenth century
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