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This is a heavy firmer chisel with a square blade and a socketted handle. The flattened end of the handle shows it was used with a mallet. The blade is marked with the name of the maker, Isaac Greaves. It was used for general woodcutting at R. Middleton & Sons' wheelwrights workshop in Eddington, Hungerford.

1 chisel: metal blade; wooden handle

1825-01-01 - 1874-12-31

Mid-nineteenth century

Metal, Wood