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Polishing block

human history
  • Description

    Lapping block

    Circular wooden box with circular steel plate. Lid missing.

    Lapping blocks were wooden blocks which held metal plates in which fine abrasives were embedded. Progressively finer abrasives produced a fine polish on a flat surface without rounding edges or corners of the article.

  • Accession Number
    2004.44.55
  • Accession Date
    21 May 2004
  • Other Id

    H361 (horology)

  • Department
Polishing block, 2004.44.55, H361, © Auckland Museum CC BY

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