[Bonetools] "linen smoother"?

[Jesper Ostergaard]

I would recognise this tool as being a tool for the function of caulking. If true, it is from the ship and boatworkers, where they are fitting planks and tightning them by squeezing and hammering fibres (hair) and tar between the planks. Modern exampels are in iron, size and shape fits perfectly well, also the edge is blunt not sharp, but the material of this, being bone makes me doubt if the bone-tool can take the beating if meant for this purpose. 


Jesper S. Østergaard
Hessensgade 22, 2tv
2300 København S

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On Mon, 6/16/14, Dave Constantine <dkconstantine at btinternet.com> wrote:

 Subject: [Bonetools] "linen smoother"?
 To: bonetools at listserv.niif.hu
 Date: Monday, June 16, 2014, 10:39 AM
 
 
 
 
 
 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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