[Bonetools] "linen smoother"?

S O'Connor S.Oconnor at bradford.ac.uk
Mon Jun 16 17:07:17 CEST 2014


Excellent! Is it worth stating that other examples are made in both cetacean
bone and wood?

Sonia

Dr Sonia O'Connor PhD FSA FIIC ACR Honorary Visiting Fellow, University of
York
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Archaeological Sciences
Division of AGES,  
University of Bradford
Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP, UK

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See also the  current bone tool of the month at the WBRG-website:
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Am 16.06.2014 um 11:32 schrieb S O'Connor:

> Dear David,
>
>
>
> I have seen objects just like this in cetacean bone and wood, but of 
> much more recent origin. These are sailmakers tools for smoothing 
> seams in sails and are sometimes called seam rubbers.
>
>
>
> See Hull Museums Collections http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/ 
> museumcollections/collections/search-results/resultsoverview.php? 
> keywordsorig=&titleorig=&personorig=&placeorig=&dateorig=&materialorig 
> =&accessionnumberorig=&collectionorig=&museumorig=&keywords=seam 
> +smoother&SearchSubmit.x=0&SearchSubmit.y=0&SearchSubmit=Search&title= 
> &person=&place=&date=&material=&accessionnumber=&collectionall=all&mus 
> eumall=all&location=any
>
> If this URL does not work go to http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/ 
> museumcollections/collections/ and search on seam smoother.
>
>
>
> All the best,
>
>
>
> Sonia
>
>
>
> Dr Sonia O'Connor PhD FSA FIIC ACR Honorary Visiting Fellow,  
> University of York
>
> Post-doctoral Research Fellow
>
> Archaeological Sciences
>
> Division of AGES,
>
> University of Bradford
>
> Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP, UK
>
>
>
> tel 01274 23 6498 (office) 5210 (lab)
>
> fax 01274 23 5210
>
>
>
> From: Bonetools [mailto:bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu] On  
> Behalf Of Dave Constantine
> Sent: 16 June 2014 09:40
> To: bonetools at listserv.niif.hu
> Subject: [Bonetools] "linen smoother"?
>
>
>
> 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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