Nutmeg grater
Category
Machinery and industrial devices
Date
Unknown
Materials
Copper
Measurements
31 mm (Height); 28 mm (Diameter)
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Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion
NT 547457
Summary
Cylindrical copper nutmeg grater. Multiple horizontal grooves on outside. Base and lid incorporate coins; profile of man with wreath and Georgius III Rex' one side and Britannia and text 'Britain NIA 1770' the other. Cylindrical perforated grater inside. Handwritten label, inscribed 'Nutmeg grater 40/- 1754-1770 Britannia'.
Provenance
An item from the Pamela Ward Collection, left to the National Trust in Miss Ward's will in 1994
Marks and inscriptions
Nutmeg grater 40/- 1754-1770 Britannia~ (label)