Description:Mouldmaker's modelling tool for piercing holes.
Used in the production of plaster moulds for pottery making.
The tool is a hollow brass cylinder. The cylinder has a hole in it for the surplus material to escape. It is attached to a wooden handle.
Roughly 13cm in length.
It was used by a modeller 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.