SOLD Civil War Era Hand-soldered Tin Bakers Cup: Measure, Grater, Cutter, Pie Wheel! early photograph 2 1/2" t x 2"

2 1/2" t x 2" w x 7/16" d

and concentrations of the Davis family in Virginia and North Carolina

the presence of that broken stem

the form wonderfully graphic and sculptural

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

SOLD Civil War Era Hand-soldered Tin Bakers Cup: Measure, Grater, Cutter, Pie Wheel! early photograph 2 1/2" t x 2"I'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