Watchman's rattle.

Collection type: Object
Description: Watchman's rattle.
Long description: Whirling ratchet rattle, handle and frame of turned wood. two tongues screwed on to frame and two cogs with six points attached to the handle (wooden pins now broken). [HLR]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Birmingham London
Cultural groups: English
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector William Coleman Piercy; PRM source William Coleman Piercy; PRM source Faith Piercy
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1839
Date collected: By 1935
Acquisition information: Bequeathed: 1935 Acquired: 1939
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Process Carpentered, Process Turned
Dimensions: Length: max 260 mm, Height: max 220 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1939.3.206
Research and responses: Chartism was a 19th century British working-class movement for parliamentary reform. Chartist riots & demonstrations took place in Birmingham, London and in Newport, Wales, in 1839 [Encyclopædia Britannica Online]. [CF 14/3/2000]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartist: Chartism was a movement for social and political reform in the United Kingdom during the mid-19th century. It gains its name from the People's Charter of 1838, which set out the main aims of the movement. ... [see site for further information] [AP 03/10/2006]

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