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This is a bench clamp, a predecessor of the modern bench stop. It was used to hold timber to a bench during planing. The rounded pillar fits into a circular socket. It was used by the donor, a carpenter and cabinet maker, at Kidlington, Oxfordshire.

1 bench clamp: metal (wrought iron); fair condition- incomplete

MERL 'Handwritten catalogue' form – 'CLAMP (bench) // A clamp used to hold timber to a bench during planing. The rounded pillar fits into a circular socket: The predecessor of the modern bench stop. // [pencil sketch] // wrought iron', Letter, J. C. Pope to MERL, 24 March 1961 - 'A workshop of which I have been the tenant for some years is shortly to be sold... // There are some wheelwrights' + other tools which I think may be of interest to you.'

1900-01-01 - 1949-12-31

Twentieth century, first half