18Th Century Cast Brass Skimmer
Stock No
5009
2015
- £295.00
- €356 Euro
- $376 US Dollar
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Item Description
An English cast brass skimmer with which "cooks take away all the filth and scume from off a boiling pott the liquor runing throw the holes, and the dreggs remaineing on the scummer". This example has been cast with the unusual feature of a hook to hang by rather than the more usual hole. Made similar throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, this example thought to date to around 1750.
20.75 in x 5.75 in dia
Item Info
Seller
Seller Location
London, London
Period
18th Century & Earlier
Item Location
United Kingdom
Seller Location
London, London
Item Location
United Kingdom
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+44 (0)207 7275263
+44 (0)7831 561042