Long twisted shaft with a flat, rectangular handle and a twisted ring finial; the shaft pivots on a narrow rectangular toaster plate with twisted double demi-leaves and pegs; there are tailshape projections that form racks at each side; raised on four short arched legs with square feet.
toasters (cooking and heating devices)
cookware
iron (metal)
wrought
Iron
Wrought
TOASTER
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
4.75 x 17.5 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1002
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