SOLD Civil War Era Hand-soldered Tin Bakers Cup: Measure, Grater, Cutter, Pie Wheel! early photograph Salem or Boston

Salem or Boston

with the pleasure of holding and using it a nice offset to the endlessness of weeding

and is marked on the bottom

the form wonderfully graphic and sculptural

the presence of that broken stem

SOLD Civil War Era Hand-soldered Tin Bakers Cup: Measure, Grater, Cutter, Pie Wheel! early photograph Salem or BostonI've found exactly other tin cup like this before, several years ago, but that's the only other I've seen. A pretty ingenious, make do feeling thing combining grater on one side, pie wheel out front and biscuit cutter on the bottom, and meant to function as a measuring cup too, I presume. I believe a Civil War era creation, soldered together of tin and certainly a useful thing for an army cook (and any cook!) to have on hand, a sort of one man band