Egg timer
Category
Historic Services / Food & drink preparation
Date
Unknown
Materials
Bone, Ivory, Wood
Measurements
85 mm (H)160 mm (Diameter)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1332463
Summary
Remains of egg timer. Top and bottom of turned and polished black wood (like draughts). The pillars have spiralled turning of bone or ivory. One pillar is incomplete and very damaged.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.