Huge 140 LB Antique Dye Maker's First Stage Mortar & Pestle, English, GeorgianOur Stock # 25758 This is a large antique dye maker's first stage Mortar & Pestle. An English, heavy cast iron industrial grinding tool, dating to the Georgian period, circa 1800. Fascinating and of impressive proportion, this pairing would have been used to grind the initial source material, before refinement in smaller, bench based mortars. An exceptional example from the era of the burgeoning Industrial Revolution Displays a desirable aged patina,