Scythe Sharpener -(with 2 holders)
Object Title: Farm Equipment
Object Name: Scythe Sharpener (with 2 holders)
Description
1. Cow horn
2. Soldered tin (possibly brass)
3. Stone Flint
Size (in mm)
Cow horn: 320 mm L x 70 mm W
Tin: 205 mm L x 65 mm W
Stone: 270 mm L x 45 mm W
Parts
Stone sharpener (flint) with one metal and one horn holder
Collection
No (item in personal custody of owner)
Colour
Stone – grey
Horn – cream
Tin – dark grey
Materials
Cow horn, tin, solder, bent wire
Maker
Giacomo Filippi (holders); stone brought in from Italy
Inscriptions
Nil
Method of manufacture
Hand-made in early 1930’s (?) by Giacomo Filippi
Contents
Nil
Use
Put a bit of water in the horn to make it easier to sharpen the scythe. Used to cut grass for cows that the Filippi family kept in Steeltown (Cringila)
History
Got someone to bring the stone from Italy.
Date
- Made: Possibly 1930s but after 1926
- Donated: No
- Recorded (for register): 18 January 2004
Associated information
Grass was cut for the cows. Kids would turn it and bale it, to put in the nests (chickens); and as food for the cows. Only done in the summer time. None of the others (migrants) had cows.
Item number
N/A
Cataloguer
Eva Castle
Current location
Personal collection, Rina Montgomery (nee Filippi), Bulli NSW
