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Dough Scraper

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Collection Type

  • Cooking equipment

Date

1845

GUSN

GUSN-2199

Description

Small, with flat iron incised blade, hollow tapering brass handle with incised rings at wide end.

Details

Descriptive Terms

scrapers (finishing tools)
cookware
brass (alloy)
incising
iron (metal)
Brass
Iron
Incised
SCRAPER, DOUGH

Inscription

1) Incised on blade: ""P.D./ 1845"". 2) Paper label handwritten by NFL: ""Rare Penna. / Dough Scraper / made by Peter / Derr in 1845 / see other side"".

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Derr, Peter (Maker)

Location of Origin

PA, USA

Dimensions

3.75 x 3.5 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.220

Places

Pennsylvania (United States)

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