Pipe Tongs
date: label: date made
content: 1750 - 1800
notes: label: Description
content: With bowed, slender, cylindrical arms terminating in two circular grips or pads extending from contoured handles, one curled inward and the other scrolled out to a pierced disc, that are connected by a hidden hinge held closed by a curled-tip leaf spring bolted inside the disc-end handle. Pick is threaded through arm with disc-end handle, while tamper is attached perpendicular to hinge on the inward-curled handle. No marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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 Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.388612
label: catalog number
content: 388612
label: accession number
content: 182022
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tongs, pipe
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, wrought (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 3/8 in x 3 1/4 in x 1 5/8 in; 44.1325 cm x 8.255 cm x 4.1275 cm