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Handle
Axe
This axe handle, for a collier’s hatchet, was made by Forest Products Limited of Huntley, Gloucestershire, circa 1945–6. The handle is made of ash and has been cleft by hand to follow the natural grain of the wood, giving the handle a strength and toughness not achieved through machine cutting – for this reason cleft handles were commonly used for mining tools. This handle is part of a large colle…
Contributors
- Forest Products Limited
Subject
- CRAFTS : wood-working
- Handle making
- EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING : extraction
- Coal
- Coal
Type of item
- Handle
- Axe
- Axé
Date
- 1945/1946
- 1945/1946
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Places
- Huntley
Provenance
- Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading, United Kingdom
Identifier
- 60/571
- 10002
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/Museu/ProvidedCHO/Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading/10002
Providing country
- Europe
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-07-31T16:16:19.302Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2019-10-18T15:44:57.982Z