Engraving Tools. File.

Move your pointing device over the image to zoom to detail. If using a mouse click on the image to toggle zoom.
When in zoom mode use + or - keys to adjust level of image zoom.

Date:Not Recorded

Description:Engraver's file.

Hand-made tool consisting of a wooden block with stiff blackened emery paper wrapped around.

Roughly 14cm in length.

The paper is nailed to the block on the tool's upper side.

Used in the engraving process as a file to smooth away the burr of copper gouged out by the punches on copper printing plates.

Used while the plate was on on a roller/cylinder.

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.

Share:

Link to this resource

Creators: Potteries Museum and Art Gallery - Creator

Donor ref:(110/16347)

Source: Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

Copyright information: Copyrights to all resources are retained by the individual rights holders. They have kindly made their collections available for non-commercial private study & educational use. Re-distribution of resources in any form is only permitted subject to strict adherence to the usage guidelines.