Another view of a Colonial kitchen display in a museum with table and 2 chairs.. There is a display rack on the wall with a few odds and end. The fireplace has spoons handing from it and there appears to be a chest with a brass tea kettle and rye straw basket.
The only American brass tea kettle seen by H.J. Kauffman. The maker has not been identified. It is in perfect condition. Inscription on the front of tea kettle "From Wm. Kee, Esq to James M. Adams, U.S.N."
Provenance
Photographs from the estate of Henry Kauffman. From the James A. Knowles Collectio, The Smithsonian Institution.
Extremely rare brass kettle made of one piece of brass. There are no joints and the forming was done completely wth a hammer. Signed W. Heyser, Chambersburg. From Horst Collection
(3 copies 1 one 5"x7", one 8"x8", the other 8"x10")
From a note attached to the picture: " A brass warming pan with a very attractive cut out design and a handle with a rope twist. Important warming pans gravitate to some of the important antique dealers. The cutout design was attractive and functional. The openings provided a small draft to keep the coals hot as the pan was swept between the sheets to take off the chill of winter nights."
From a note on the back of the photo: "Two dippers and a spatula made in Canton, Ohio late in the nineteenth century. The design of the finials of the handles are identical, but fortunately they are very attractive. The bowls, and the spatula are made of brass, the handles of iron.
From note on the back of the photo: " Jagging irons or pie crimpers. The older type on the right and left are usually called jagging irons while the mid-nineteenth century tuype in the center is called a pie crimper." From the colletion of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Smith