Description:Engraver's tool known as a graver.
Made of metal, it tapers to a rough
point with a flattened head and is bevelled into a diamond shape. It is roughly 3.5cm in length.
Used in the engraving process to punch etched details of a design onto a copper plate.
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.