Thumb Scoop
date: label: date made
content: 1900 - 1910
notes: label: Description
content: Shallow, plain-edged, ovoid scoop with looped, flat strap handle secured with two rivets at top back. Handle has a spade-shape, depressed thumb rest and is secured at top back with a single river through each of its two ends. No marks.
label: Description
content: Thumb scoops such as this occasionally survive with buttons mounted to the thumb rest advertising different brands of flour.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Kenneth E. Jewett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.238049.0051
label: catalog number
content: 238049.0051
label: accession number
content: 238049
objectType: label: Object Name
content: scoop
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 5/8 in x 6 5/8 in x 2 3/4 in; 4.1275 cm x 16.8275 cm x 6.985 cm