Stuffer, Sausage
- Object Name:
- Stuffer, Sausage
- Object ID:
- 1968.508.40
- Place of Origin:
- possibly United States
- Date:
- 1825-1875
- Description:
- Sausage Stuffer. Pewter. Four pieces, including a 7" tube, a nozzle end, a wooden dowel with plunger and a cap. Syringe with cylindrical pewter body 2" in diameter, threaded on outer surface at one end and knurled at the other. Decorated with a central band of four incised grooves and textured bands at either end. Threaded extension at knurled end 0.9" in diameter. A cylindrical pewter cap with threaded interior screws onto each end. Both caps have knurled decoration. Basal cap has 2.25" tubular extension on nipple. Upper cap has circular opening with cylindrical collar through which passes maple plunger. Plunger has cylindrical body with a vase-shaped turned top, 6.5" long and two adjoining pewter disks at base, 1.75" in diameter, with leather washers between, bound with string and with fiber in-between. Braided cord also wrapped around plunger. Nipple bent.
- Material:
- Metal
Pewter
Wood - Dimensions:
- L-13 Dia-18.8 inches
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
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