Snuffers
Snuffers
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- Description
- Scissor-type snuffers on three ball feet. Opposed, broken C-scroll handles with equal-size oval finger loops are joined by a bullseye pivot; spear-point lower blade has an attached clipped-corner rectangular box engraved "DH" in flecked script on top, while upper blade has a conforming vertical tab that fits inside box. Struck once inside box "CARREL" in raised roman letters in a rectangle. Part of snuffers and tray, DL*383487-DL*383488.
- Object Name
- Snuffers and Tray
- date made
- ca 1795
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- United States: South Carolina, Charleston
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- Measurements
- candle snuffer: 17 cm x 5.7 cm; 6 11/16 in x 2 1/4 in
- overall: 1 3/8 in x 6 5/8 in x 2 1/4 in; 3.4925 cm x 16.8275 cm x 5.715 cm
- ID Number
- DL.383487
- catalog number
- 383487
- accession number
- 162866
- Credit Line
- Estate of Arthur Michael
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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