Butter Stamp
date: label: date made
content: 1819
label: carved date
content: 1819
name: label: user
content: Copp Family
notes: label: Description
content: This wooden butter paddle was owned by the Copp family in Stonington, Connecticut around 1819. The paddle has a partner in object D.L.00636.01. These butter paddles were used as scoops for taking butter out of the churn, cutting and shaping the butter into a block or pressing it into a mold, and finally imprinting the butter with the repousse floral pattern seen on the paddle.
label: Description
content: The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New England
label: place used
content: United States: Connecticut, Stonington
topic: label: Subject
content: Food Processing
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Copp Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Brenton Copp
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.006636.02
label: accession number
content: 28810
label: catalog number
content: 6636.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stamp, butter
label: Other Terms
content: Butter Print; Fire Making Apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cedar, white (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 11 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in; 1.5875 cm x 29.845 cm x 9.525 cm