A metal hammer used for blacksmithing. Both handle and head made from a single piece of metal. The head is rectangular with a flat working face; the handle is cylindrical. There are some cracks in the surface of the metal and small amounts of rust.
A metal hammer used for blacksmithing. Both handle and head made from a single piece of metal. The head is rectangular with a flat working face; the handle is cylindrical. There are some cracks in the surface of the metal and small amounts of rust.
There are 2 objects with this IDNO. The Accession Register reads "hammer", but has "stool" added after it. The metal hammer, with an adhered Thomas label notes "196" and on the left "1239" and "Hammer, for blacksmiths, for beating out metal."
The catalogue card Z 12203 refers to a hammer with the Thomas number 196 (Catalogue 1). Subsequently a note was added describing a wooden stool which also bears the Thomas number 196. The stool was also added as a note in the Accession Register. It seems that this stool was erroneously labelled Z 12203 and both the stool and hammer were documented under this accession number, being assigned the suffixes .1-2 at a later date.
The confusion between these two objects seems to have arisen due to having the same Thomas number, although from different catalogues. The stool is now understood to be Z 14050 which is numbered 196 in Thomas' 2nd Catalogue and was collected in Obu. It is similar in form to another stool collected during the 2nd Tour, also from Obu, Z 14011. Z 14050 was not located during the 2001 inventory project and was believed to be missing.
All information about the stool has now been transferred to Z 14050 and the record for Z 12203.2 (previously the stool) has been deleted. Since there is now only one object with the accession number Z 12203, the suffix has been removed.
Note on reverse of catalogue card reads: 'It may be that the hammer was the original 197 in which case it has been given the wrong number - but this can't be changed without altering the whole succeeding sequence'