Bloodstone Burnishing Tool.

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Description:Bloodstone burnishing tool with a wooden handle and brass sleeve.

Roughly 9cm in length.

Used on ware with gold decoration.

The gold would be wiped with a moist abrasive powder called silver sand. It was then rubbed with a burnishing tool to give it a brilliant finish.

Taken from a collection of tools belonging to Mrs Edith Finney, born Toft (1884-1979), who worked at Crown Staffs, Paragon China and then Crown Staffs until her retirement in 1962.

Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Tools Collection.

This object is now part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums.

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Creators: Potteries Museum and Art Gallery - Creator

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Source: Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

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