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Piton Hammer - Homemade

Accession Number

1399.2017.1

Object Name

Piton Hammer - Homemade

Created

13/07/2017

Creator

Hermione Cooper

Accession Date

13/07/2017

Brief Description

Homemade piton hammer with nylon wrist loop. Wooden shaft.

Materials

Metal, wood, nylon

Dimensions

Shaft 24.5(L)cms Head 7(L) cms

Number Of Objects

1

Inscription Description

"FSN" initials on head and shaft.

Colour

Brown

Maker

Fred Nicholson

Provenance

Things of a homemade variety have always been favourites of ours and we have several items in the collection which were made in the Glasgow shipyards. This little piton hammer, however, is the first item which was made in an English shipyard.
Fred Nicholson worked as a 'driller' at the Barrow in Furness yard in Cumbria and made this wee hammer back in the 1960's. He told us how he made it in a letter to Mick Tighe in 2017.
" The head point was made of a mild steel square bar which I sawed and filled and the point was welded to a piece of mild steel tubing which I filled and drilled and countersunk to rivet to the shaft. The shaft is part of a billiard cue I got from my old school as it was damaged on the end. I intended to use it for a walking stick but it looked daft! So I shortened it and used it for the hammer shaft and it worked though could have been made heavier if I'd thought it through a bit more. Then it could have been clumsy! . "
Nice work Fred, an excellent little addition to our collection.

Acquisition Method

Donated by Fred Nicholson

Acquisition Date

13/07/2017

Condition Check Date

13/07/2017

Rules

Spectrum : UK Museum documentation standard, V.3.1 2007

Modified

13/07/2017

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