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Thermometer

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Collection Type

  • Cooking equipment

Date

1915-1925

GUSN

GUSN-19175

Description

Cooking thermometer, glass w/ paper insert. Metal tip, small metal balls inside. Paper indicates temperature in black and red numbering up to 200 degrees. Glass ring at top. Housed in brown cardboard box.

Details

Descriptive Terms

thermometers
cookware
glass (material)
metal
paper (fiber product)
Glass
Unidentified Paper
Unidentified Metal
THERMOMETER

Inscription

Printed on paper: ""Easy Reading Dairy Thermometer/...Registered No 212587/ made in Germany""

Associated Building

Original to Castle Tucker (Wiscasset, Me.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

8.75 x 0.75 x 0.75 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Miss Jane S. Tucker

Accession Number

1998.946

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