Carved Grain Shovel
Date1870-1900
DimensionsOverall: 30.5 x 106.7 cm
Credit LineGift of Mr. Verne Pincombe, London, Ontario, 1960
Object number1960.065.001
Label TextByron farmer John Edwin Pincombe (1871-1961) used the grain shovel. Wooden shovels were safer than iron shovels. When iron shovels scraped over nails in the granary floor, they sometimes produced sparks that could ignite dust and cause an explosion.
NameShovel, Grain
c. 1910
