Object Details
- Description
- Tabletop sugar nippers mounted to an ogee-molded rectangular board with a short, brass, baluster-and-reel post supporting the pivot. Bulbous, turned wooden handle with pairs of incised lines. No marks.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1800 - 1840
- Credit Line
- Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
- Physical Description
- iron, wrought (nippers material)
- brass (post material)
- walnut (board, handle material)
- Measurements
- overall: 6 in x 14 1/2 in x 4 1/4 in; 15.24 cm x 36.83 cm x 10.795 cm
- Object Name
- nippers, sugar
