Cutter, Sugar
- Object Name:
- Cutter, Sugar
- Object ID:
- 1971.078
- Creator:
- Timmins, Richard & Sons
- Place of Origin:
- Birmingham, England
- Date:
- 1790
- Description:
- Sugar Nippers. Iron, brass, and wood. Inter-mechanism mounted on wood base. Pivoting portion is mounted in brass yoke atop a brass column and a decorative brass boss which is screwed onto a wood base with a machine screw. Fixed jaw portion of pincers in secured to wood base with machine screw. Movable jaw has a lever arm that terminates in a turned wood handle. Handle and base are medium brown hardwood. Turned handle is roughly egg-shaped and reduces to smaller neck then goes to flattened collar on shaft. Two pairs of decorative lines on handle and a small slot near front end. Extreme end of handle is a rounded iron termination. Cutting jaws are semi-circular with flared edges. Each jaw is at end of a semi-circular bend in the shaft. Pivot is a box joint. Three pairs of decorative lines on each side of box joint. Three concentric decorative grooves in the brass around pivot shaft. Name stamped in top of movable iron shaft: "[T]IMMINS / & SONS".
- Material:
- Wood
Metal
Iron
Brass - Dimensions:
- H-5.7 W-3.4 L-13.1 inches
- Provenance:
- Purchased from antiques dealer in Granby, CT.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
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