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- This is a plough gauge, a saddlery tool used for cutting strips of leather at a certain (adjustable) width. It was used by a saddler and cobbler in Yattendon, Berkshire, who had worked there from 1901 until the early 1960s.
- Physical description1 plough gauge: metal, wood
- Archival historyLetter, Miss F. Palmer to Mr Higgs, 2nd May 1962 - 'Our village Saddler + cobbler Mr Burnham has just died. He had had the shop here since 1901 and his father was also a saddler in Reading...'