A Rare Late 19thC Granite Butchers Slaughtering Block c.1890 Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews ‘J&Co 51-3253’ bottom left and

‘J&Co 51-3253’ bottom left and the GPO logo bottom right

Yet within weeks they were filling the celebrated Town Hall

with a beautiful patina to the cloth and general discolouration and fade

Width: 1”

The original black painted fruitwood carcass showing the wonderful original textured surface worn thoroughly and consistently with age

A Rare Late 19thC Granite Butchers Slaughtering Block c.1890 Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews ‘J&Co 51-3253’ bottom left andOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Dairyland Farmworld Museum, Cornwall, UK Date: c. 1890 Height: 16 Diameter: 16 The rarely found butchers slaughtering or tethering block or boulder, used for slaughtering animals in a butchery, the whole in granite with a blacksmith forged iron tethering ring, the whole surviving from the late nineteenth century and formerly of the Dairyland Museum, Cornwall. In complete condition, the block is in