Tallystick
Date made: late 19th century
Description: Tallysticks (4). Long rectangular strips of wooden with notches cut on side and some with handwritten pencil notes on sides.
Tally Sticks (4) used for counting the catches of fish from Peel.
Tally sticks were commonly used as a convenient and accessible method for keeping records of loans or other payments. The stick would be split in half, down its length from one end to the other. The debtor would retain half, called the "foil". The creditor would retain the other half, called the "stock" - even today, British bankers use the word "stocks" to refer to debts of the British government.
Materials: wood
Object name: tally
Collection: Social History Collection
ID Number: 1954-0647
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