'The oldest British industry': Continuity and obsolescence in a flinktknapper's sample set

A set of gunflints and other artefacts produced by Fred Snare at Brandon is an example of ways in which craftsmen in a declining trade attempted to cr eate new markets by introducing new techniques and forms, and finding new w ays to sell traditional skills. Sample sets and artefacts made for collecto rs reflect how some gunflint knappers, drawing on romantic concepts of thei r craft as 'heritage', assigned new meanings to the flint industry as part of a survival strategy for an obsolescent trade.