- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Steel chisel, part of a case containing leather-working tools. Turned and carved wooden handle, cylindrical in shape with sides tapering towards the tool end. the handle has split. A small chisel blade with a pointed tang is hafted to the handle. For the other component parts see [1992.22.30 .1 - 3] and [1992.22.30 .5 - 7]. [CW [OPS Move] 11/4/2017]
- Long description
- Roughly cylindrical stiff leather case, open at the top, with thong threaded through two holes in the rim. Stitched with sinew. Contains a strip of skin, stained blue on one side (c.f. 1992.22.6), with thongs attached to one end, rolled and tied around: a leather finger-stall with adjustable brass screw, tied on a piece of string; a steel chisel with half the wooden handle missing; a black suede European-style glove for the right hand, with first and fourth fingers and thumb cut out and second and third fingers reinforced with leather. Also contained in the case are two cotton glove-fingers, tied together with tape, and the thumb of a leather glove with tapes attached.
- Geographical reference
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1992
- Date collected
- By 1992
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 28/08/1992
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Metal, Process Carved, Process Forged (Metal)
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 12 mm, Width: max 23 mm, Length: max 104 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1992.22.30.4
- Research and responses
Tools and gloves probably used by collector for making various items in the collection. Uncertain whether case was made by him.
Search terms: Tool, Tool Kit, Leather-working Tool