Description:Gilder's shell with pencil rest. Used by pottery decorators when using gold.
Sometimes known as a gold shell, the shape is designed so that expensive excess gold from the pencil (brush) drains back into the central well.
This example is missing its cover.
Made by W R Robinson of Burslem, Reg No 796005, registered during 1935.
Robinson described their products as being made from 'Solid Stourbridge Glass'.
Roughly 19cm in length.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Tools Collection.
This object is now part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums.