Egg Cooker (Egg Coddler)
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description
content: Six-egg cooker shaped as a large inverted egg held between three S-scroll supports ending in split-scroll feet to which a circular platform with central depression containing a disc-shaped, single-burner spirit lamp is attached. Cast knop of a spreadwing chicken or hen standing over eggs in a nest is secured with wingnut atop the friction-fit cover. Inside is a removable, six-ring caddy or lifter formed around three scrolled wire supports with ring handle. Screw-top burner; cotton wick stuffed inside. Cover stamped incuse "1" inside. No other marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
label: place used
content: United States: California, Santa Barbara
label: place used
content: United States: Nebraska, Omaha
topic: label: Subject
content: Food Culture
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Food
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. H. B. (Clara Babcock) Blackmar
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.61.0392
label: catalog number
content: 61.0392
label: accession number
content: 233677
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cooker, egg
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (burner material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (wick material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 3/4 in x 6 1/2 in; 27.305 cm x 16.51 cm