Description:Engraver's whetstone.
A rectangular stone block used in the engraving process to sharpen tools.
This stone was housed in a wooden block.
The stone would be smeared with oil and the engraving tool rubbed until sharpened.
It is roughly 20cm in length.
One of a set of tools once belonging to Mr Harry Millward, local engraver, 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.