- Date
- 1800 – 1950
- Material
- wood; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 104.49.0008
- Description
- An oversized screwdriver with large, flattened handle and long, shaped blade. Wooden handle has large round knob at end which has been flattened on opposite sides to fit the hand easily. Long, flat, steel blade tapers in slightly at the middle, then out again and narrows to a flat end which is bev…
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- Title
- Screwdriver
- Date
- 1800 – 1950
- Material
- wood; metal
- Dimensions
- 3.8 x 6.6 x 51.9 cm
- Description
- An oversized screwdriver with large, flattened handle and long, shaped blade. Wooden handle has large round knob at end which has been flattened on opposite sides to fit the hand easily. Long, flat, steel blade tapers in slightly at the middle, then out again and narrows to a flat end which is bevelled each side. Tang of blade fits into wooden handle and is fastened with a brass ferrule. Struck into side edge of blade near ferrule is the letter "W". Marks on blade "Buck & Hickman cast steel"
- Subject
- commercial
- carpentry
- Sam Ward
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.49.0008
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