Description:Engraver's scriber.
It is a long steele pen-shaped tool with one needle end and one split fork end.
Roughly 8cm in length.
This tool was used to mark pencil sketches onto copper printing plates prior to the design being cut or etched with a graver.
Part of a set of engraving tools once belonging to local engraver, Mr Harry S Millward of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Tools Collection.
This object is now part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums.