Description:Engraver's punch cleaner.
Wooden handled tool with a hollow brass tubular end and a small brass disc or cog with a groove down the sides and a hole in the centre.
Roughly 8cm in length.
It was used together with string and a pulley action to clean punches in the engraving process.
The punch is inserted into the end of the tool and rotated onto a whetstone.
The initials HM are engraved on the wooden handle. The tool belonged to local engraver 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.