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Pot Lifter

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Collection Type

  • Cooking equipment

Date

1750-1850

GUSN

GUSN-3173

Description

Wrought iron pot lifter tool, with heavy double-hook supports; screwed on "stirrup" hook with a very long out & up carved handle.

Details

Descriptive Terms

cookware
iron (metal)
welding
wrought
Iron
Welded
Wrought
LIFTER, POT

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

15.5 x 17.25 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1506

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