Top-handled chopping or mincing knife with single, curved-edge trapezoidal blade riveted to an incurved central shaft, lapped on blade front and secured with a copper washer to a swelled cylindrical wooden handle with raised rings near its ends. Blade struck "C.W.DUNLAP (arched) / NEW YORK (straight)" in incuse sans serif letters.
Fixed handle, pointed-toe iron with maker, place manufactured and size "7" cast in top of body. Vertically-seamed, hexagonal cylindrical handle has a baluster block grip and S-curve or gooseneck sides with posts or rods individually attached into raised holes or sockets; black finish.
Attributed to Reading Foundry of Reading, PA. The Reading Foundry Co. (Ltd.) was established in 1884 as an outgrowth of Mellert Foundry and Machine Co. Both companies specialized in cast iron water pipes, waterworks equipment, architectural elements and gearings; it is not known how many sad irons they produced or for how long (examples of this handle design date back to the late 1850s).
Fixed handle, pointed-toe iron with size "7" cast in top of body. Wire handle has a vertically-seamed, baluster block grip and S-curve or gooseneck sides individually attached into domed bases or sockets. No other marks. One of three flatirons with stove- or range-top heater, 1994.0026.01-.04; irons 1994.0026.02-.03 are identical.
Fixed handle, pointed-toe iron with size "7" and the gothic or Old English letters "B" and possibly "R" cast in top of body. Handle has a horizontally-seamed block grip decorated with arches and crosslets, and D-strap, S-curve or gooseneck sides individually attached into raised semicircular bases or sockets. Possible traces of nickel plating on handle. One of three flatirons with stove- or range-top heater, 1994.0026.01-.04; irons 1994.0026.02-.03 are identical.
Handheld sugar nippers for cutting and breaking apart lump sugar. Features semicircular blades on curved jaws and tapered, D-section handles, one with an interior leaf spring and the other with exterior blunt-tipped rod, that are connected by a rectangular box hinge decorated with punchwork concentric circles, tripartitie flourishes and dots. Hinged clasp at handle ends secures blades closed. Stamped below rod on outside of handle "B•SMITH" in incuse serif letters.