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Handle
Pick axe
This handle is for a 'mandril' – a miner's pick axe – and is described as a 'bottom mandril handle'. It 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. It is part of a large collection of tradit…
Contributors
- Forest Products Limited
Subject
- CRAFTS : wood-working
- Handle making
- EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING : extraction
- Coal
- Coal
Type of item
- Handle
- Pick axe
Date
- 1945/1946
- 1945/1946
Contributors
- Forest Products Limited
Subject
- CRAFTS : wood-working
- Handle making
- EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING : extraction
- Coal
- Coal
Type of item
- Handle
- Pick axe
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
- 60/580
- 10005
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/Museu/ProvidedCHO/Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading/10005
Providing country
- Europe
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-07-31T16:16:35.785Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2019-10-18T15:44:57.982Z