[Bonetools] "linen smoother"?

[Alice Choyke]

Dear all,
      There are ethnographically attested cases of cattle mandibles being
used as linen smoothers in Norway in addition to the glass smoothers
mentioned in your letter. So there is no objection to bone per se being
used this way. The actually form is unknown to me. I have images somewhere
if anyone is interested.

Alice


On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Dave Constantine <
dkconstantine at btinternet.com> wrote:

>   Hello,
>
> I was forwarded the attached image by a friend who had seen this object in
> Lincoln Museum where I believe it was labelled as a “Linen smoother”. They
> asked if I had ever come across anything similar as they thought linen
> smoothers are normally glass slickers. Having never seen anything like it I
> thought I would pop it up here to ask if any of you have come across an
> item like this. It is dated as “Anglo-Saxon” and is approximately "5” long
> (about 125mm)
>
> Regards,
> David Constantine
>
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