Description:Engraving tool known as a graver.
It has a rectangular section and a flattened bevelled head with two curved sides. It is around 5cm in length.
It was used to etch tear-drop shapes 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.