Sugar Nippers
date: label: date made
content: 19th century
label: date made
content: 1780 - 1820
notes: label: Description
content: Handheld sugar nippers for cutting and breaking apart lump sugar. Features semicircular blades on curved jaws and tapered, D-section handles, one with an interior leaf spring and the other with exterior blunt-tipped rod, that are connected by a rectangular box hinge decorated with punchwork concentric circles, tripartitie flourishes and dots. Hinged clasp at handle ends secures blades closed. Stamped below rod on outside of handle "B•SMITH" in incuse serif letters.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Birmingham, Birmingham
topic: label: Subject
content: Food Processing
label: Subject
content: Household Tools and Equipment
label: Subject
content: Kitchen utensils
label: Subject
content: Sugar
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Wilfred A. Belanger
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0602.3
label: accession number
content: 1986.0602
label: catalog number
content: 1986.602.3
objectType: label: Object Name
content: nippers, sugar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, wrought (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 8 3/4 in x 3 1/2 in; 1.27 cm x 22.225 cm x 8.89 cm