Description:Engraver's file.
It is a regular metal-working file with diagonal grooves on its cutting surface. The handle is missing. It is roughly 27cm in length.
Probably used by the engraver to remove the burr gouged out by the engraving punches on copper printing plates.
It could also have been used to make tools.
This was part of a set of tools belonging to 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.