Butler's Branding Iron
I Sir, —In February of this | year, the Librarian of St. j John’s College. Cambridge, i asked me to look at Butler’s i branding iron and confirm the account he had already given of it. The iron is of a black and worn appearance: there are several patches of tar adhering to it and strands of wool adhering to the tar. One could not use the words “scraped and polished” to i describe its present state. I and the tar and the wool ;seem to make it very unlikely I that those words could be , appropriately used to describe anything which has ; been done to it in the past, j I have not seen the alternative explanation which “H.T.R.” states he has put ' forward, but I can see no rea- ! son to suppose that the iron I has ever been scraped or polished in any way which would alter its normal appearance or condition (which I take to be the question). It seems simpler to suppose that if L. G. D. Acland believed that it had been scraped or polished, he was mistaken.— Yours, etc.. J G. A. POCOCK. March. 9. 1961.’
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29459, 10 March 1961, Page 8
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