Burnishing Tool.
Burnishing tool with an head made of agate, a semi-precious form of silica.
Used in pottery making to enhance the appearance of fired gold decoration.
After firing, the gold decoration would be ...
Burnishing Tool.
Burnishing tool with a bloodstone or haematite head.
Used in pottery making to enhance the appearance of fired gold decoration.
After firing, the gold decoration would be dull.
The gold was wiped ...
Burnishing Tool.
Burnishing tool with a bloodstone or haematite head.
Used in pottery making to enhance the appearance of fired gold decoration.
After firing, the gold decoration would be dull.
The gold was wiped ...
Burnishing Tool.
Burnishing tool with an head made of agate, a semi-precious form of silica.
Used in pottery making to enhance the appearance of fired gold decoration.
After firing, the gold decoration would be ...
Burnishing Tool.
Burnishing tool with a bloodstone or haematite head.
Used in pottery making to enhance the appearance of fired gold decoration.
After firing, the gold decoration would be dull.
The gold was wiped ...
Burnishing Tool.
Burnishing tool with a bloodstone or haematite head.
Used in pottery making to enhance the appearance of fired gold decoration.
After firing, the gold decoration would be dull.
The gold was wiped ...
Burnishing Tool.
Burnishing tool with a bloodstone or haematite head.
Used in pottery making to enhance the appearance of fired gold decoration.
After firing, the gold decoration would be dull.
The gold was wiped ...
Burnishing Tool.
Burnishing tool with a bloodstone or haematite head.
Used in pottery making to enhance the appearance of fired gold decoration.
After firing, the gold decoration would be dull.
The gold was wiped ...
Burnishing Tools. Glass Fibre Brush.
Burnisher's glass fibre brush.
The tool consists of many glass fibres bound with tape and is roughly 5cm in length.
Used on ware with gold decoration.
The gold would be rubbed with a tool like ...
Burslem and Wolstanton Poor Union - a document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
In the 1790s, the expense of providing relief to the poor fell upon local parishes in Stoke-on-Trent.
This document outlines a meeting held to discuss sharing the costs between Burslem and nearby Wolstanton.
The ...
Burton and District Grocers Association chain of office
Burton and District Grocers Association presidential chain of office.
Cast brass jewel has enamelled centre with illustration of balance scales, border contains inscription: 'Burton & District Grocers ...
Burton and District Grocers Association gavel and block
Wooden gavel and block presented by Mr R. Fern (President 1963-1964) to the Burton and District Grocers Association when he took up his official duties in 1963.
Turned wooden gavel has waisted handle ...
Burton Cooper Statue, Burton Upon Trent
The Burton Cooper statue seen here at its current location in Cooper's Square shopping centre, Burton-upon-Trent. This bronze statue was created by James Butler RA in 1977. He researched the sculpture ...
Butchers shop, near Lichfield Street, Hanley
A grocers and butchers shop just off Lichfield Street, Hanley. Wrights Pies are advertised.
C. Capener's Butchers Shop Abattoir, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Charles Capener's abattoir that supplied the butcher's shop on the High Street. This picture was taken somewhere around the 1920's
C. Thurston's private carriage, Orton and Spooner, Burton-on-Trent
This private carriage was built and decorated by G.Orton & Sons and C.J.Spooner. It is a fairground proprietor's caravan. Thurston's funfair is still in business (2006) and is based in Bedford.
C.J. Wain, Red Lion Square, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The shop pictured on the far left was C.J. Wain's original location before it moved to its more prominent and familiar position at the top of Red Lion Square, next to St. Giles' church, in the 1890s. ...
Carpenters, Lotus Shoe Factory, Stafford,
Lotus was originally named Bostock's and was founded in the eighteenth century by Thomas Bostock, a cobbler. His three sons started their own factories in Stafford, Stone and Northampton.
Edwin Bostock's ...