Description:Steel palette knives with wooden handles.
Used by paintresses in the preparation of colour for decorating pottery.
Powdered metal oxide would be mixed and smoothed using the knives.
Owned and used by Mrs Sillitoe (later Mrs Marsen) at Salt and Nixon, Longton.
Mrs Sillitoe was a decorator and gilder in the 1930s.
She had to provide her own tools.
The tools are marked CLARKE and WARBURTON SHEFFIELD and R MATHEW & SON SHEFFIELD.
They are both roughly 26cm in length.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Tools Collection.
This object is now part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums.