Cleaver
Category
Historic Services / Food & drink preparation
Date
Unknown
Materials
Steel and wood
Measurements
40 x 360 x 114 mm
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Tredegar, Newport
NT 1552699
Summary
Cleaver. A steel meat cleaver, with wide, flat steel blade with hole pierced in one corner. Turned, bulbous, wooden handle.
Provenance
Part of the collection on loan to the National Trust from Newport Museum and Galleries. In March 2012 the National Trust took over the management of Tredegar House with its contents and its 90 acres of gardens and parkland, from Newport City Council for a period of 50 years.
Marks and inscriptions
Top of blade: AXE / TRADE MARK / R.T. [2 logos showing a crossed hammer and mallet] RICHD THOMAS / ICKN IRONWORKS AXE [crown] AXE / TRADEMARK / R.T.