Description:Various grades of emery and sand paper.
Used by the engraver to rub down the burr created from etching, cutting or punching copper printing plates.
Abrasive paper like this was also used to clean tools.
Part of a set of tools once belonging to local engraver, Mr Harry S Millward of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Tools Collection.
These objects are now part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums.