Flat shaped tool is constructed of two sheet brass sides riveted together at the handle end, allowing a flat triangular iron blade that is sandwiched between to slide out at the other end for cutting. Blade slides via a small riveted guide that slides along a slot in the brass sides. Cutter's brass sides have a fleur-de-lis-shaped handle and scalloped sides and each slot has a measuriing scale numbered from one to ten.
Inscription: The sliding guide on both sides of the slot reads "D.M.CO. / PAT SEPT. 3, 72 / BPT.CONN."
Provenance
Collected by Lillian Hollings Kiker, born to Scottish Americans who lived in New Jersey. Born (1912) and lived in New Jersey, last of Egg Harbor, she was active with quilting, sewing, knitting & crocheting. Collection inherited by donor when her mother passed away.
Photographs from MG-129 The Rebecca W. Greist Collection. Photograph album belonging to Rebecca Walton Greist, dating from 1919 to 1922, mostly photographs from Nanjing, China.
Photograph album. Woman feeding deer in a park. "Nana" or "Nara" written beneath photograph.
Provenance
Photographs from MG-129 The Rebecca W. Greist Collection. Photograph album belonging to Rebecca Walton Greist, dating from 1919 to 1922, mostly photographs from Nanjing, China.
Photographs from MG-129 The Rebecca W. Greist Collection. Photograph album belonging to Rebecca Walton Greist, dating from 1919 to 1922, mostly photographs from Nanjing, China.
