Kitchen Artifacts

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16 Ten-Plate Stove

 

Vertical rectangle with narrow side presenting, the top a flat, undecorated plate with large hole for upper pipe connection.

 

circa 1800 Pennsylvania
22 Peel

 

Loop handle connects to long body with section of flattened area with center rib above section of rounded body above square section before the flat shovel-shaped working surface.

 

18th century America
26 Grill

 

Iron piece with two upside-down u-shaped pieces (the front with turned up toes, the back with plain feet) enclosing 13 flat rods.

 

circa 1800 Probably America
27 Frying Pan

 

A flat-bottomed round pan with angled sides on three angled legs of square profile each fastened to outside of pan sides with two rivets, long handle with the end formed by the tip of the handle being wrapped around into a circle.

 

circa 1770 Probably America
29 Trammel Hook

 

Single iron piece shaped like an "s", wide flat end (the end on which one hangs the hook) curving around to small tapered end (the end which one hangs on the trammel)

 

circa 1780 Probably America
30 Trammel Hook

 

Single iron piece shaped like a "c" with wide flat end curving around to narrow tapered tip

 

circa 1800 America
31 Trammel Hook

 

Single iron piece shaped like a "c", with slightly tapered wide end curving around to a narrow tapered end.

 

circa1800 America
32 Bowl

 

Redware ceramic with glazed interior of light brown with small dark brown spots and matte-finish exterior, turned lip with pouring spout on one side, atop outward-flaring straight sides with incised lines and flat bottom.

 

circa 1780 America
33 Pitcher

 

Redware ceramic body with both interior and exterior glazed in dark green-brown with brown dots, flaring lip with single pouring spout, narrow neck, gently curved body pinching in to disk base, flat handle with ribs mounted to narrow neck and lower body. Base unglazed. circa1780 America
34 Mortar & Pestle

 

Straight-sided pestle of single piece of wood with pattern of incised lines on exterior, interior worn smooth through repeated use, flat bottom. Mortar is a single piece of wood with curved end, pattern of incised lines and narrow turned handle. circa 1780 America
35 Balance Scale

 

A five part assemblage including a) a long rod with graduated scaled markings from 25 to 7, b) a heavy bell-shaped weight that fastens around rod with a figure eight device, and c - e) a series of three "c" hooks with complicated fasteners to the main rod.

 

19th century (appraisal identifies as 18th century) Unknown
36 Fork

 

Large toasting fork made of a single piece of iron. Tapered tip looped over into hanging hook, flat body with shaped center section square in profile, extending to two-tine fork. circa 1800 Probably America
53 Hatchel

 

Single flat piece of wood with a hole at each end, several pieces of iron wrapped flat around the wood with two metal extensions surrounding the holes through the wood. circa 1800 America
54 Tankard

 

Tankard lid with dome-top and incised line decoration, rococo-shaped thumbpiece connecting to hinge and s-hook handle, the pear-shaped body of the tankard with incised line just above the widest section, the whole resting on a raised foot. circa 1780 England or America
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