Leather-working tool
Category
Tools
Date
Unknown
Materials
Steel, Wood, Brass
Measurements
141 mm (Length); 26 mm (Diameter)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1332179.5.2
Summary
Cobbler's/leather worker's stitch marker. Serrated steel wheel screwed into the slotted end of a short, slightly curved, square section metal bar. Bulb-shaped wooden handle with brass collar. End unscrews to open a little compartment containing two spare serrated wheels.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.