Cobbler's stool
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1880
Materials
Elm, pine, leather
Measurements
57 x 92 x 42 cm
Place of origin
England
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1332179.1
Summary
An elm cobbler's bench, English, circa 1880. With pine tool tray and drawer below, leather seat and a quantity of cobbler's tools and implements, on splayed legs. In notebook no.5, page 4 (1340945.5) Charles Wade refers to: 'Top Royal no.1 Cobbler's Bench with all tools, lamp, six pairs of old lasts with number of client written on them and pieces of leather added for their corns and bunions. fr. THURLOW, cobbler, Little St. Yoxford, Suffolk' In his notebook recalling his memories of Yoxford (1340944, page 18) CPW recalls the village cobbler ‘Thurlow’ and includes a pencil sketch of the bench and tools that now reside in Top Royal. Here he also writes ‘NOTE: This bench is now at Snowshill Manor also his SUNDAY COAT full skirted of Brown Velveteen with brass buttons and large pocket flaps’. (This coat now forms part of the Wade Costume Collection).
Provenance
Thurlow, the cobbler in Little Street, Yoxford, Suffolk. Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 5 Second Floor, 1944, Page 3 Wade, 1945: Charles Paget Wade, Yoxford Suffolk 1896, 1945, page 18