Description:Engraver's dabber.
Usually made by the engraver or printer, this tool consists of a roll of green felt, bound by string and knotted. It is around 6cm long.
The knot forms a handle for the tool.
A couple of uses have been identified for this tool.
Engravers would use the tool to dab onto copper printing plates, making the fine tones they were attempting to create easier to see.
Printers would use the tool to smooth colour onto the hot copper printing plates.
One of a set of engraving tools once owned by 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.