Sugar Nippers
date: label: date made
content: 1800 - 1900
notes: label: Description
content: Handheld, scissors-type sugar nippers for cutting and breaking apart lump sugar. Features semicircular blades on curved jaws and long, straight handles, rectangular in section, that are connected by a central hinge or pivot pin; one handle has an interior leaf spring attached by a short, rectangular rod near end. Clasp or hook at handle ends secured blades closed. No marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Food Processing
label: Subject
content: Household Tools and Equipment
label: Subject
content: Kitchen utensils
label: Subject
content: Sugar
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Clarence C. Hostrup and Christian F. Hostrup in memory of Carl M. Hostrup
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.266152.0001
label: catalog number
content: 266152.0001
label: accession number
content: 266152
objectType: label: Object Name
content: nippers, sugar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, wrought (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 9 3/4 in x 2 7/8 in; 2.2225 cm x 24.765 cm x 7.3025 cm