Object number
59/441
Description
This mortising chisel, used for cutting mortices to create joints in wood, has an oval wooden handle and a short, pointed, steel blade. It is stamped with the name of the manufacturer on the blade, but the writing is too worn to read. It is a wheelwrighting tool, and probably belonged to the donor's grandfather, who was a wheelwright.
Physical description
chisel: metal (steel), wood
Archival history
MERL Miscellaneous note, Greta Bertram, 9 November 2012 – MERL Recording form [59/441–446] – ‘Name of Object: Wheelwright tools // Name and Address of Owner: Mr Smith 21 Edgehill Street, Reading // Name and Address if Recorder (if different from Owner): [Illegible name] Grandfather of above Wheelwright in Market St Corner of West St Business closed about 1890’. Kelly's Directory of Berks, Bucks and Oxon, 1887 indicated no wheelwright at this address, and no wheelwright in Reading with a name resembling that recorded on the form. Additionally, there is no intersection of West Street and Market Street in Reading, so perhaps he was a wheelwright in another place.
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- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_4115.tif - High resolution image
