Description:Mouldmaker's bat. 17cm in diameter.
Used to produce plaster moulds for the production of pottery.
The moulds would rest on this circular iron disc during manufacture.
This mouldmaking bat was used by a mouldmaker named Mr Juggins between 1930 and 1973.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Tools Collection.
This object is now part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums.