Stuffer, Sausage
- Object Name:
- Stuffer, Sausage
- Object ID:
- 1949.013.04 a
- Date:
- circa 1825
- Description:
- Sausage stuffer. Wooden plunger, made from one piece of wood cut into three different diameter cylinders; two larger ones at the ends, one the handle and the other the stuffing part. Used with funnel 1949.013.04 b. Medium tan, fine-grained hardwood. Small cylinder roughly 2.7" diameter, 2.5" long. Central handle between ends, slightly eccentric. Cylinder at opposite end ~3.5" diameter. Not perfectly round. Some visible flat planes on side from tools. End surface flat with slightly rounded edges. End plane not perpendicular to central axis. Handle offset from axis of both cylinders Handle closer to being concentric with smaller cylinder. Saw and chisel marks on inside edges of both cylinders. Some concentric tool marks on outside end surface of smaller cylinder. These concentric marks do not coincide with center of cylinder.
- Material:
- Metal
Wood - Dimensions:
- H-10.1 Dia-3.5 inches Weight-12.1 oz
- Provenance:
- Owned by Nathan Clark (1804-1891) and Hannah B. (Kimball) Clark (1802-1884) of Gilmanton and Belmont, NH. Catherine D. Morrill was the granddaughter of Hannah B. Clark.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Catherine D. Morrill
- Subjects:
- Sausages
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