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
From note on back of photograph: "Brass mold for casting pewter buttons. U.S.A. is engraved on the bottom surface of each cavity and was reproduced on each button. The two handles of wood originally fitted on each tang are missing. Courtesy Don Berkbile
Close up of a brass screw on part of an unidentifed object
Provenance
Photographs from the estate of Henry Kauffman. This photograph not be be reprodced in any form without written permission of the Henry Francis Du Pont Winterthur Museum and it is understood that reproduction will be accompanied by the credit line: "Courtesy, Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum"
