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This is a wooden stocktaking board with details of various sundries written on in pencil, dated March 1st 1943. The written items include small iron crook, links and crank grasshoppers. This item came to the museum as part of the Reeves collection.

MERL Miscellaneous note, Greta Bertram, 10 March 2014 – The Reeves Collection was donated by R. & J. Reeves and Son Ltd. of Bratton Iron Works near Westbury, Wiltshire. The firm, which manufactured agricultural machinery, was well-established by 1849, and went into final receivership in 1970, when the Collection was donated to MERL. Bratton Iron Works was demolished in 1973. A detailed list of all of the objects in the Collection can be found in the accession file for 70/235. Records relating to the firm can be found in the MERL Archives, reference TR REE., MERL 'Handwritten accession' form (Institute of Agricultural History) – 'Nameplate // Industries // gift Reeves, Bratton // Description: Wooden stocktaking board with details of malleable sundries written on it in pencil. March 1st 1943- see attached Xerox. Dimension: 35.5cmx17.5cm’