Description:Mouldmaker's file.
Used as a shaping or filing tool in the production of plaster moulds for pottery making.
It is a plastic-handled nail file from a manicure set which has been cut down.
It is around 6cm in length.
The tool was used by a mouldmaker named Mr Juggins, who worked as a mouldmaker from 1930 to 1973.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Tools Collection.
This object is now part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums.