Cultural object · Europeana
IMAGE- Contributor
- Pound, L.
- Country
- Europe
- Provider
- Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading
- Collection
- 2064107_Museu_UK_Museums
This is a mosaic hammer, used by a stonemason to cut cubes of marble. It is missing its handle. The hammer is one of a collection of stonemasonry tools given to the Museum by Mr Ben Hingston, a London stonemason who stopped working in the practical side of the trade in 1958. Mr Hingston acquired it from Mr Watts, a Dagenham stonemason – it was common practice for masons to borrow tools from each other – but never used it himself. It was repaired by L. Pound, a Lambeth tool maker, because it was
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