Leather-working tool
Category
Tools
Date
Unknown
Materials
Steel, Wood, Brass
Measurements
117 mm (Length); 25 mm (Diameter)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1332179.5.6
Summary
Cobbler's/leather worker's stitch marker. Steel wheel with spikes around circumference screwed into the slotted end of a short square section brassl bar, with stamped 'R' stamped on it. Some spikes broken, and wheel now does not rotate. Bulb-shaped wooden handle with brass collar.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade