Plate, shears
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- OBJECT TYPE
- sheep
- DATE
- 1925
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2004.1964.001
- MANUFACTURER
- FLEXIBLE SHAFT CO. LTD.
- MODEL
- Stewart B1/361
- LOCATION
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 2
- AKA
- Clipper plate/ Bottom Plate
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- steel
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 7.7 cm
- Width
- 5.0 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Agriculture
- Category
- Animal husbandry
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- FLEXIBLE
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- City
- Toronto
Context
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- mid 1920s +
- Canada
-
Manual and eventually electric sheep shearing equipment was key to Canada's wool industry in the period from the 1880s till the 1950s. - Function
-
Part of the cutter of a device used to shear sheep. - Technical
-
The plate would have been used on a machine that greatly mechanized the process over that of the previous hand shears. Stewart was the manufacturer of one of the more commonly used tools. Its products were advertised in many of the agricultural papers such as Farmers Advocate and NorWest Farmer. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- incised lettering reads 'STEWART NO. 361/ F.S.CO. LTD./ TORONTO/ CANADA'
- Missing
- appears complete
- Finish
- brushed metal
- Decoration
- N/A
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FLEXIBLE SHAFT CO. LTD., Plate, shears, circa 1925, Artifact no. 2004.1964, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingenium.ca/en/id/2004.1964.001/
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