SPOKESHAVE; TWO-HANDED
A medium sized spokeshave made of wood with dual handles, one at each side. It has been carved into shape. There is a metal plate that has been screwed down with 4 screws. There is a metal blade. The metal blade has been attached and it has 2 thin nail like ends that protrude from the wood so it is able to be adjusted to size and hammered out to be sharpened.
OG Whitfield is (John) Oliver Goldsmith Whitfield (1870-1955), son of George Munro Whitfield (1816-1890). Oliver ran Whitfield's General Store in Newcastle (subsequently known as Toodyay) with his wife Eva in the 1900s. The site later became a bakery and, in the 1920s, the Wendouree Tea Rooms.
Donated to the museum by Anita Thurman (1909-1992), daughter of Oliver & Eva. Anita contributed a number of family artefacts, known as the Whitfield family collection, to the Newcastle Gaol Museum during the twentieth century.
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Belonged to OG Whitfield / Whitfield / Thurman
A spokeshave is a hand tool used to shape and smooth woods in woodworking jobs such as making cart wheel spokes or chair legs.
