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Thimble

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Object ID: G.05.15.39

Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Description: Thimble of "Alpaca Silver" (see Notes). Similar to G.05.15.38, the sides have a vertical seam and are capped by a domed top with a waffle pattern produced by a machine. Upper half of sides have vertical rows of hand-punched dimples. Plain bottom half. Bottom edge has a raised, applied band with 10 hand-set pieces of vari-colored abalone. Solder points quite visible.; Struck inside rim is "-LPACA". Most likely made in Mexico

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.

Year Range From: 1950

Year Range To: 1980

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: Island 4

Storage Cabinet: Unit 19

Storage Container: Box 1002: Sewing & Needlework

Subcategory: Textileworking T&E

Object Name: Thimble

Material: Metal

Height (in): 0.875

Diameter (in): 0.75

Condition: Good

Condition Date: 2014-01-22

Condition Notes: Dents/distortion at sides as well as significant tarnish.

Object ID: G.05.15.39

Notes: Nickel silver, German silver, Argentan, new silver, nickel brass, albata, alpacca, or electrum is a copper alloy with nickel and often zinc. The usual formulation is 60% copper, 20% nickel and 20% zinc. Nickel silver is named for its silvery appearance, but it contains no elemental silver unless plated. The name "German silver" refers to its development by 19th-century German metalworkers in imitation of the Chinese alloy known as paktong (cupronickel). All modern, commercially important nickel silvers (such as those standardized under ASTM B122) contain significant amounts of zinc, and are sometimes considered a subset of brass.

Place of Origin: Mexico

Credit: Gift of Susan Garofola in memory of Lillian Kiker (mother), Heritage Center Collection

Accession Number: G.05.15

Pincushion

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/0ab45050-d5b4-4747-b70a-104334197200

Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Object ID: G.87.08

Date Range: c. 1825

Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Description: Needle cleaner, painted cut velvet and paper, emery sand within. Rectangular box shape; sides slope in to smaller base. Padded top covered with yellow velvet decorated with painted green flowers. Sides and base covered with a glossy tan paper.; Laid paper label pasted onto bottom has handwritten inscription in ink: "Magdelena Andrews (Ressler) received this needel(sic) cleaner in 1825 when three years of age then in 1895 gave it to her granddaughter Clara Aument."; Compare similar needle cleaner 2002.004; Lancaster County, possibly Colerain Twp.

Provenance: Inscription indicates origin as a gift to 3-yr-old Magdalena Andrews (19 Sep 1822 - 24 Nov 1897), daughter of Joseph and Marie (Mary) Andrews. Magdalena married Martin Boehm Ressler, a farmer in Strasburg. Their daughter Annie married H. Elmer Aument and had a daughter Clara P. Aument (1892 - 1974), unmarried & a clerk in Lancaster City. The needle cleaner was given to granddaughter Clara in 1895, two years before Magdalena's death. Finally given to museum by unknown donor.

Date Range: c. 1825

Year Range From: 1800

Year Range To: 1825

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: Island 2

Storage Cabinet: Unit 13

Subcategory: Textileworking T&E

Object Name: Pincushion

Oither Names: Needle Cleaner

Material: Cloth

Height (in): 1.125

Length (in): 2.75

Width (in): 2

Condition: Good

Condition Date: 2014-12-22

Condition Notes: Wear, soil and fading overall. Small losses of velvet. Paper is cracked, soiled and worn.

Object ID: G.87.08

Notes: Andrews family were early settlers in Colerain Twp., including a Joseph Andrews - see Ellis & Evans pp. 728, 732, 733. Census 1810-1850 show a Joseph Andrews in Colerain Twp. The 1850 Census shows Joseph & Mary in Strasburg, living next to daughter Magdalena family (Martin Ressler).

Place of Origin: Lancaster County

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: G.87.08

Plate, Decorative

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Title: Redware Plate, Ephrata Cloister

Object ID: G.02.30.1

Date Range: 1986

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Title: Redware Plate, Ephrata Cloister

Description: Redware plate, shaped over a mold, with gently curving sides rising to a coggled edge. Top has incised image of one of the buildings at Ephrata Cloister, the Saron. Colored orange-brown (caramel) with green touches on foliage. Brownish red band at edge.; Tin glazed on top only. Impressed on bottom is a tulip next to "FOLTZ POTTERY/ REINHOLDS, PA." Foltz's signature above stamp and "1986" below. Also incised at top is "The Sisters House (Saron)/ 1743/ at the Ephraa Cloister." At bottom is "Doneckers 25th Anniversary/ Limited Edition/ #167."

Date Range: 1986

Made By: Foltz, E. Ned

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: West Wall

Storage Cabinet: Unit 34

Storage Shelf: Shelf 3

Subcategory: Food Service T&E

Object Name: Plate, Decorative

Material: Redware

Width (in): 10

Condition: Excellent

Condition Notes: Some soiling such as paint residue underneath.

Object ID: G.02.30.1

Place of Origin: Reinholds, West Cocalico Twp.

Accession Number: G.02.30

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Plate, Decorative

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Title: Redware Plate, Ephrata Cloister

Object ID: G.02.30.2

Date Range: 1988

1 image

Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Title: Redware Plate, Ephrata Cloister

Description: Redware plate, shaped over a mold, with gently curving sides rising to a coggled edge. Top has incised image of a one of the buildings at Ephrata Cloister, the Academy. Surface is colored an orange-brown with green touches on foliage. Brownish red band at edge.; Tin glazed on top only. Impressed on bottom is a tulip surrounded by "FOLTZ POTTERY/ REINHOLDS, PA." Foltz's signature above stamp and "1988" below. Also incised at top is "The Academy - 1837/ at the Ephrata Cloister." Below is written: "Made for Doneckers/ Ephrata, Pa./ Limited Edition/ #116."

Date Range: 1988

Made By: Foltz, E. Ned

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: West Wall

Storage Cabinet: Unit 34

Storage Shelf: Shelf 3

Subcategory: Food Service T&E

Object Name: Plate, Decorative

Material: Redware

Width (in): 10

Condition: Excellent

Condition Notes: Some soiling such as paint residue underneath.

Object ID: G.02.30.2

Place of Origin: Reinholds, West Cocalico Twp.

Accession Number: G.02.30

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Plate, Decorative

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Title: Redware Plate, Ephrata Cloister

Object ID: G.02.30.3

Date Range: 1987

1 image

Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Title: Redware Plate, Ephrata Cloister

Description: Redware plate, shaped over a mold, with gently curving sides rising to a coggled edge. Top has incised image of a one of the buildings at Ephrata Cloister, the Saal. Colored orange-brown (caramel) with green touches on foliage. Brownish red band at edge.; Tin glazed on top only. Impressed on bottom is a tulip surrounded by "FOLTZ POTTERY/ REINHOLDS, PA." Foltz's signature above stamp and "1987" below. Also incised at top is "The Saal - 1743/ at the Ephrata Cloister." Below is written: "Made for Doneckers/ Ephrata, Pa./ Limited Edition/ #112."

Date Range: 1987

Made By: Foltz, E. Ned

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: West Wall

Storage Cabinet: Unit 34

Storage Shelf: Shelf 3

Subcategory: Food Service T&E

Object Name: Plate, Decorative

Material: Redware

Width (in): 10

Condition: Excellent

Condition Notes: Some soiling such as paint residue underneath.

Object ID: G.02.30.3

Place of Origin: Reinholds, West Cocalico Twp.

Accession Number: G.02.30

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Plate, Decorative

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Title: Redware Plate, Ephrata Cloister

Object ID: G.02.30.4

Date Range: 1989

1 image

Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Title: Redware Plate, Ephrata Cloister

Description: Redware plate, shaped over a mold, with gently curving sides rising to a coggled edge. Top has incised image of a house and small outbuilding at Ephrata Cloister, the Conrad Beissel House. Colored orange-brown (caramel) with green touches on foliage.; Tin glazed on top only. Impressed on bottom is a tulip surrounded by "FOLTZ POTTERY/ REINHOLDS, PA." Foltz's signature above stamp and "1989" below. Also incised, at top, is "The Conrad Beissel House/ at the Ephrata Cloister." Below is written: "Made for Doneckers/ Ephrata, Pa./ Limited Edition/ #51."

Date Range: 1989

Made By: Foltz, E. Ned

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: West Wall

Storage Cabinet: Unit 34

Storage Shelf: Shelf 3

Subcategory: Food Service T&E

Object Name: Plate, Decorative

Material: Redware

Width (in): 10

Condition: Excellent

Condition Notes: Some soiling such as paint residue underneath.

Object ID: G.02.30.4

Place of Origin: Reinholds, West Cocalico Twp.

Accession Number: G.02.30

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Mold, Cake

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/f20bd9cc-4e30-470a-bf54-293412574451

Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Title: Redware Cake Mold

Object ID: G.80.123.7

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Title: Redware Cake Mold

Description: Turk's head cake mold of glazed redware with splotches of manganese decoration. Number "10" incised on inside of center cone near bottom.

Year Range From: 1800

Year Range To: 1850

Made By: Unknown

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: West Wall

Storage Cabinet: Unit 36

Storage Shelf: Shelf 1

Subcategory: Food Processing T&E

Object Name: Mold, Cake

Material: Redware

Height (in): 3

Diameter (in): 8.375

Condition: Good

Condition Notes: Large chip on the inside of lip; minor nicks at top of cone interior ; minor wear throughout, especially on underside.

Object ID: G.80.123.7

Place of Origin: Southeastern Pennsylvania

Credit: Heritage Center Collection, gift of Mrs. Paul A. Mueller

Accession Number: G.80.123

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Jar, Food Storage

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/7db79537-a55b-4f99-ba8e-195700238816

Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Title: Redware Canning Jar

Object ID: G.99.22.1

1 image

Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Title: Redware Canning Jar

Description: Redware canning jar, ovoid shape with no handle. Pronounced foot ring and rounded flaring lip with recessed interior to receive a fitted lid (missing). Dark brown manganese decoration with some mottling, streaks and dark spatters. Lead glaze overall except for underside.

Year Range From: 1800

Year Range To: 1850

Made By: Unknown

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: West Wall

Storage Cabinet: Unit 36

Storage Shelf: Shelf 1

Subcategory: Food Processing T&E

Object Name: Jar, Food Storage

Material: Redware

Height (in): 9

Diameter (in): 8

Dimension Details: Diameter at shoulder

Condition: Fair

Condition Date: 2014-03-25

Condition Notes: Very strong wear with losses. Lip has very large chip and one very small chip at outside edge. Strong losses of glaze at lip. Very strong abrasions at salient point of side, with considerable scattered scratches. Foot ring has three large chips and one very large chip. Soil on inside and underside.

Object ID: G.99.22.1

Place of Origin: Pennsylvania

Credit: Gift of Drs. Irwin and M. Susan Richman, Heritage Center Collection

Accession Number: G.99.22

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Teapot

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/821fd9be-2ac0-4d38-a66e-290624639985

Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Title: Gaudy Dutch Teapot with Lid

Object ID: G.98.51.03a-b

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Title: Gaudy Dutch Teapot with Lid

Description: Glazed soft paste porcelain Gaudy Dutch teapot (A) with lid (B). Handpainted "Butterfly" pattern decoration on pale blue body of pearlware. Squat ovoid body sits on a low footring; body swells most in lower half. Collar extends outward below an oblong mouth fitted with conforming domed lid with oblong knob finial . Spout has minimal molding as does arching applied handle.

Provenance: Collected by Harpo and Susan Marx during visits back East from CA. Donated to Heritage Center.

Year Range From: 1800

Year Range To: 1850

Last Owner: Marx, Harpo and Susan

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: West Wall

Storage Cabinet: Unit 35

Storage Shelf: Shelf 1

Subcategory: Food Service T&E

Object Name: Teapot

Material: Clay, Glaze, Paint

Height (in): 6

Length (in): 10.25

Width (in): 5.25

Dimension Details: Length is spout to handle.

Condition: Good

Condition Date: 2014-05-06

Condition Notes: Overall strong staining, especially at lower spout and base section and interior. Strong hairline cracks throughout base and bottom, with resulting staining. Scratchon butterfly wing. Chip on underside of spout tip. Long split/crack on handle back, perhaps from firing. Coloring is very uneven at multiple places, sometimes creating a mottled effect. Wear and soil under foot ring.

Object ID: G.98.51.03a-b

Place of Origin: England

Credit: Given in memory of Harpo by Susan Marx, Heritage Center Collection

Accession Number: G.98.51

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Bowl, Sugar

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Title: Sugar Bowl with Lid

Object ID: G.98.51.27a-b

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Title: Sugar Bowl with Lid

Description: Glazed soft paste porcelain Gaudy Welsh sugar bowl (A) with lid (B). Handpainted inverted tulips of red and yellow are interspersed with 3 large, dominating deep blue scalloped motifs decorated with copper lustre painted floral decoration. Squat pot-bellied body sits on a low squarish pedestal with scalloped edging. Two molded angular applied handles. Top has round mouth with flared collar extends outward. Domed lid has squarish molded knob finial. Darkened remnant of paper sticker with blurred writing, perhaps "-caster/ --ea set/ --1825."

Provenance: Collected by Harpo and Susan Marx during visits back East from CA. Donated to Heritage Center.

Year Range From: 1800

Year Range To: 1850

Last Owner: Marx, Harpo and Susan

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: West Wall

Storage Cabinet: Unit 35

Storage Shelf: Shelf 1

Subcategory: Food Service T&E

Object Name: Bowl, Sugar

Material: Clay, Glaze, Paint

Height (in): 6

Width (in): 6

Dimension Details: Width is handle to handle.

Condition: Excellent

Condition Date: 0014-05-07

Condition Notes: Minimal soiling. Little sign of wear under pedestal foot.

Object ID: G.98.51.27a-b

Place of Origin: England

Credit: Given in memory of Harpo by Susan Marx, Heritage Center Collection

Accession Number: G.98.51

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Bowl

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Object ID: G.98.15.1

Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Description: Chinese export bowl of high fired porcelain, polychrome decoration under glaze. Thin walled in nearly hemispherical form sitting on a 3/4" raised foot. Gold-painted rim with red edging. Two goldfish inside bottom. Continuous landscape on exterior is the same repeating Roman or Greek scene of a seated half-robed seated man with dog facing three nude women and seated baby. All set against distant mountains and one tree in foreground.

Year Range From: 1800

Year Range To: 1850

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: West Wall

Storage Cabinet: Unit 35

Subcategory: Food Service T&E

Object Name: Bowl

Material: Clay, Glaze, Paint

Height (in): 4.5

Diameter (in): 10

Condition: Good

Condition Date: 2914-05-07

Condition Notes: Repaired diagonal crack extending down from lip.

Object ID: G.98.15.1

Place of Origin: China

Credit: Gift of Drs. Irwin and M. Susan Richman

Accession Number: G.98.15

Set, Cup and Saucer

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Title: Cup

Object ID: G.98.51.32a-b

Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Title: Cup

Description: Cup (A) and saucer (B), glazed soft-paste porcelain, Strawberry pattern. Handleless cup has straight flaring sides & rests on a small foot Paint decoration on white ground has 2 strawberries & a large green leaf on each side with smaller leaves, purple roses and brown squiggles. Interior has double stripe with berries and flowers. Rim painted rust.; Saucer (B)

Provenance: Collected by Harpo and Susan Marx during visits back East from CA. Donated to Heritage Center.

Year Range From: 1800

Year Range To: 1850

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: West Wall

Storage Cabinet: Unit 32

Storage Shelf: Shelf 3

Subcategory: Food Service T&E

Object Name: Set, Cup and Saucer

Material: Clay, Glaze, Paint

Height (in): 2.5

Diameter (in): 3.75

Object ID: G.98.51.32a-b

Place of Origin: England

Credit: Given in memory of Harpo by Susan Marx, Heritage Center Collection

Accession Number: G.98.51

Beaker

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/6d3342aa-7dfc-4bec-9a45-681553968081

Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Object ID: P.97.08.5

Date Range: c. 1820

Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Description: Pewter beaker or handleless cup. Part of the Warwick Congregation's (now known as the Brickerville United Lutheran Church) communion service.; Cylinder form flares out slightly at bottom as well as top. Banded at base.; Engraved on the exterior, near top, are the small initials "M.W."

Provenance: The entire communion service remained in use over the years until the congregation decided in 1997 to find a safe place for this valuable communion set. Purchased by the Heritage Center of Lancaster County.

Date Range: c. 1820

Made By: Boardman, Thomas D. and Sherman, attributed

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: West Wall

Storage Cabinet: Unit 32

Storage Shelf: Shelf 4

Subcategory: Food Service T&E

Object Name: Beaker

Material: Pewter

Height (in): 3.625

Diameter (in): 2.875

Dimension Details: Diameter of bottom is listed. Diameter of top is 2.5".

Condition: Good

Condition Date: 2014-08-28

Condition Notes: Overall abrasions, pitting, small dents and staining. Rim has multiple small dents and abrasions. Bottom interior is pitted. Wear underneath with some areas slightly cracked. Dent at base.

Object ID: P.97.08.5

Place of Origin: Hartford, Connecticut

Credit: Acquired through the generosity of the James Hale Steinman Foundation and Friends of the Heritage Center Museum, Heritage Center Collection

Accession Number: P.97.08

Trivet

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/e5a248ae-27dc-45c3-bdd1-705126734600

Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Object ID: G.87.5.1

Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Description: Wrought iron trivet is a heart shape with three legs with small turned feet. Top end of legs pierce heart and are flattened on top like rivets to secure them. Top surface of heart is punch-decorated with dots

Provenance: Card in file has note by donor stating "made by C.B. Zimmerman, R.D.1, East Earl." However, "Made by" is later crossed out, resulting in questionable origns. A Christian B. Zimmerman (1908-1981), a farmer in East Earl and belonging to the Old Order Weaverland Mennonite Church is buried in the Weaverland Menn. Cemetery.

Year Range From: 1800

Year Range To: 1850

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: Island 1

Storage Cabinet: Unit 46

Subcategory: Food Service T&E

Object Name: Trivet

Material: Iron

Height (in): 2.625

Length (in): 6.5

Width (in): 4.25

Condition: Good

Condition Date: 2015-03-27

Condition Notes: Underside of heart is darkened.

Object ID: G.87.5.1

Credit: Gift of Vivian Gerstell, Heritage Center Collection

Accession Number: G.87.5

Hammer

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Object ID: G.08.19.1

Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Description: Diminutive hammer has elongated steel head; tapered cylinder end and thin flattened opposite end. Long hardwood handle mortised into head is wide and flat at head end and swelled to a rounded oval shape before tapering to blunt point at terminal.

Provenance: Donor was given hammer mid 1970s by an acquaintance, Frances Geiger, a "maiden lady from Quarryville." Attribution to Gorgas was stated by Ms. Geiger at that time. (Research indicates Frances was a teacher living in Millersville.); Handmade sticker on hammer, now removed, had "Circa 1763-1798". These dates relate to Gorgas Sr. rather than Jr. The father appeared on Cocalico tax records by 1763 and died 1798.

Year Range From: 1800

Year Range To: 1825

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: West Wall

Storage Cabinet: Unit 30

Storage Shelf: Shelf 4

Subcategory: Metalworking T&E

Object Name: Hammer

Material: Steel, Wood

Length (in): 9.5

Width (in): 3

Condition: Good

Condition Date: 2015-03-30

Condition Notes: Head has some dark tarnish. Handle is smooth and polished with some dark stains. Two small nails driven into handle end as it protrudes at top of head.

Object ID: G.08.19.1

Usage: Gorgas, Jacob, Jr. (b. circa 1763-1828)

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: G.08.19

Hammer

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Object ID: G.96.31.2

Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Description: Diminutive hammer has elongated steel or iron head; tapered cylinder end and a tapering, flattened, thin end. Long hardwood handle is square-mortised into head and has a swell near opposite end with a blunt tip.

Provenance: Donor states the hammer was used by clockmaker Martin Shreiner (1769-1866), his great, great, great grandfather. Donor donated a signed statement by Edward D. Glass (1881-1962) that the hammer was purchased by him from the Shreiner estate sale at 136 E. Walnut St. in Lancaster, apparently around 1895 or 1896. (see file) Glass was a paperboy in that district of town and lived with his parents Daniel & Mary at 556 N. Shippen St. He would have been 14 or 15 yrs. old when he bought the hammer.

Year Range From: 1800

Year Range To: 1825

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: West Wall

Storage Cabinet: Unit 30

Storage Shelf: Shelf 4

Subcategory: Metalworking T&E

Object Name: Hammer

Material: Wood, Steel

Length (in): 6.5

Width (in): 2

Condition: Good

Condition Date: 2015-03-31

Condition Notes: Head has some considerable corrosion. Moderate wear and soil on handle with some minor loss of wood near terminal. Head is loose on handle and small nail has been driven into handle end as it protrudes at top of head.

Object ID: G.96.31.2

Usage: Shreiner, Martin

Credit: Gift of Paul A. Mueller, Jr., Heritage Center Collection

Accession Number: G.96.31

Trammel

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/5093dc73-c11e-4fcf-98a2-464358074722

Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Object ID: E.9.1

Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Description: Wrought iron trammel made of two pieces that engage and adjust in length. Each piece has a hook to hanging a pot from a fireplace crane.; Formerly part of Heritage Center's study collection.

Provenance: Purchased in the Wilmington, DE, area for exhibit use at the Heritage Center in a kitchen fireplace.

Year Range From: 1800

Year Range To: 1850

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: Island 1

Storage Cabinet: Unit 46

Subcategory: Food Processing T&E

Object Name: Trammel

Material: Iron

Length (in): 11.5

Width (in): 1

Dimension Details: Dimensions while in shortest position.

Condition: Good

Condition Date: 2015-04-01

Condition Notes: Blackened overall by use in a fireplace.

Object ID: E.9.1

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: E.9

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