Sugar Nippers
date: label: date made
content: 1780 - 1820
notes: label: Description
content: Handheld sugar nippers for cutting and breaking apart lump sugar. Features spade-shaped blades on curved jaws and tapered, D-section handles, one with an interior leaf spring and the other with exterior, short, conical-tipped, tapered rod, that are connected by a rectangular box hinge decorated with punchwork concentric circles and dumbbell shapes. Hinged clasp at handle ends secures blades closed. Stamped inside handle with rod "B.SMITH" in tiny incuse serif letters.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Birmingham, Birmingham
label: place used
content: Antarctica
topic: label: Subject
content: Food Processing
label: Subject
content: Household Tools and Equipment
label: Subject
content: Kitchen utensils
label: Subject
content: Sugar
label: Subject
content: Polar Exploration
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.167778
label: catalog number
content: 167778
objectType: label: Object Name
content: nippers, sugar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, wrought (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 9 1/8 in x 4 1/2 in; 1.27 cm x 23.1775 cm x 11.43 cm