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Bodkin
Nail-shaped iron bodkin. Made by a blacksmith. Rough circular shaped head. Label attached reads: '1936 - 100 year old bodkin. Roughly fashioned by a smith. Used during the early part of the 19th century as a chair-caning bodkin'. From the Cardiff Institute for the Blind, and presumably used by its service users during the 1930s.
Collection Area
Social & Cultural History
Item Number
F91.37
Measurements
Length
(cm): 18
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