Numero oggetto
96/86
Creatore
Descrizione
This is a hook with a blade made from a recycled farmer's rasp. Tanged with a ferrule and there is a black tape around 9 cm of length of the handle at the black end. There is no inscription on the object but almost certainly made by WILLIS of Bramley who was a friend of the Browns.
Descrizione fisica
1 hook: wood and metal; good condition
<DIV STYLE="text-align:Justify;font-family:Georgia;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:16;color:#000000;"><P><SPAN><SPAN>4. <B>Reap hook</B><P> This hook has a blade that has been re-forged and fashioned from a farrier's tool known as a rasp which was used to shave down a horse's hooves. Rasps did not last long for their file-like surfaces gradually became blunted. In the early twentieth century, Alfred Willis, who was a blacksmith working in the Hampshire village of Bramley, earned quite a reputation for taking old rasps and, through a process of heating and hammering, turning them into edge tools like this hook.<P> 96/86</SPAN></SPAN></P></DIV>
Storico archivio
MERL Miscellaneous note-Georgia Charitou- 27 October 2014- This collection of tools 96/81-96/90 belonged to the donor's father, George Ernest Brown, and grandfather, Charles Lesley Brown. The Browns were a well known family of shop keepers in Bramley. The business was started by Mrs Monger's great- grandfather, also George Ernest Brown, who moved to Bramley to Sonning in c. 1898. He set up a shop selling promisions, bread etc. He kept pigs and sold bacon. The shop expanded and became the principle supplier of goods in and around Bramley. The shop continued to run until the 1960's. The premises have since been converted to offices. Mrs Monger's father, George Ernest Brown, ran a petrol station in Bramley from 1958-1979. The premises are now used as estate agents. almost certainly made by blacksmith Alfred Willis of Bramley, Hampshire
Luogo di produzione
Bramley [Hampshire]
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