Description:Engraver's scraper.
A wooden-handled tool with a flat steel blade. The maker's mark, VAUTIER, is impressed on the blade. Roughly 17cm in length.
Used in the engraving process to scrape away the burrs of copper gouged out by the punch or graver on a copper printing plate.
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.