Pipe Tongs
date: label: date made
content: 1750 - 1800
notes: label: Description
content: With straight, slender, D-section arms terminating in two horizontal oval grips or pads extending from straight, round handles that are connected by a hidden hinge held closed by a leaf spring bolted inside one handle and fitted into groove of the other. Tamper with thick, tapered shaft is attached perpendicular to hinge on the grooved handle. Cusped shoulders. No marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Europe
topic: label: Subject
content: Heating
label: Subject
content: Lighting
label: Subject
content: Smoking
label: Subject
content: Tobacco Use
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Virginia W. Hillyer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.377236
label: catalog number
content: 377236
label: accession number
content: 136485
label: collector/donor number
content: 966
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tongs, pipe
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, wrought (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 14 5/8 in x 1 3/4 in; 3.81 cm x 37.1475 cm x 4.445 cm