1 gen 1690 anni - awlblade

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The awl is a small tool with a tapering, sharpened blade, used especially by shoemakers for piercing leather: it can be compared with the woodworker’s bradawl. A Sheffield bye-law of 1690 contains a rare reference to makers <i>of knives, shears, sickles, scissors, scythes, aulblades, files or other cutlery ware</i> (HCC11) but this specialised trade had a much longer history in the town: 1655 <i>Robert Dickson</i> of Attercliffe in the parish of Sheffeld,<i> albladesmith</i> (PR3/194); 1660 <i>Adam Allen, awlbladesmith</i> (HCC107). In 1676 cutlers’ marks were granted to 34 <i>awlbladesmiths</i> on their admission to the company (HCC82). The occupation continued to be mentioned in Sheffield documents and <i>15 Awl Blade Makers</i> were listed in the trade directory of 1822. It was not uncommon from the sixteenth century for 'an awl' to be mistakenly written as 'a nall' which suggests that some clerks were not familiar with the term, n.b. 1655 <i>Thomas Ryles of Sheffeld nallbladesmith</i> (PR3/197).

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