Description:Engraver's punch. Made of metal.
Roughly cylindrical in shape, it has one flat end and one flattened pointed head. It is approximately 10cm in length.
Used to punch etched design details onto copper plates.
The copper plates would then be inked and used to produce design outlines and ceramic transfers.
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.
This object is now part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums.