Context (Related Documents)
Previously mounted on plain paper-wrapped display board along with 1916.10.1 and .3. The reverse of the board shows an inscription in pencil: '3 small hafted tools used by basket makers. Norfolk. H. Bird Esq. 1916.10'.
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Accession register for 1916.10.1-3: 'Three small hand implements iron [illegible] shanked hooks with flanged heads in turned wooden handles. Used by basket makers & other straw work.'
Event Date 1916
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Related Documents)
See 'Report on Collections Research and Cataloguing Project on Post Medieval 'To Be Disposed Of' Material' by David Kay in the archive (Doc.474) for background information.
Event Date 2019
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Straw splitter incorporating a pointed iron rod that has four cutting blades attached at the tip, one now broken, with a point protruding at a right angle. The rod is set into a cylindrical shaped wooden handle with a brass fixing. Decoration of four incised bands near the base of the iron rod.
Event Date 4/1/2024
Author: Alana Edgeworth