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Description: | One tool is probably a bookbinding tool or a tool used in another context for the decoration of leather. It consists of a long stem with a small square block at the end. The tool has a long, tubular handle (made of wood?). Its complete length is 19.75cm. The kit also contains: one steel safety ruler, two bone creasers, a modelling tool - possibly a 'Dresden' modelling tool - with a wooden handle and a curved metal shaft at either end. This tool is 17.25cm long. The kit also has a compass or possibly a washer cutter compass; one of the legs being wider than the other. The kit contains a T. Dixon creaser, marked '3', with a heart-shaped head. It also has a knife (possibly a head knife as illustrated in Salaman, page 29), which is 14.5cm long and well worn. Two fillets are also included (see Salaman, page 6) and a Thomas Dixon & Sons creaser, double bladed and 17.5cm long.
Assorted leather-working tools. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Walsall Museums | Rights holder: | Walsall Museums | Subjects: | Walsall Leather Museum Collection Leather industry | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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