Cornish Stamp Battery

MIN 8.033.tif

Title

Cornish Stamp Battery

Subject

Stamps
MWork MIN 8.34

Description

A Cornish stamp battery. A stamp battery is a type of mill machine that crushes material by pounding rather than grinding, either for further processing or for extraction of metallic ores.

Publisher

Morrab Library

Date

1975

Rights

Morrab Library

Format

Print

Identifier

MIN 8.033

Original Format

photo

Period Costume

N

Subject Era

1890