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Spit

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Collection Type

  • Cooking equipment

Date

1700-1780

GUSN

GUSN-2301

Description

Spit with slotted shaft and bent crank handle supported on trestle base with penny-shaped ends; spit is held by U-shaped and ring-ended uprights.

Details

Descriptive Terms

spits
cookware
iron (metal)
wrought
Iron
Wrought
ROTISSERIE

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

11 x 25.5 x 10.75 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.309

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