Description:Thrower's rib made from iron.
A hand-held tool used for smoothing the outside shape of a pot while it is being thrown.
This example has no thumb hole but an extension to aids use, which makes it quite uncomfortable to hold.
Ribs are usually made from pottery, metal or slate by the thrower for his own use.
They are believed to be called ribs because they were originally made from animal's ribs.
Roughly 8cm in length.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Tools Collection.
This object is now part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums.