Nutcracker
Category
Historic Services / Food & drink preparation
Date
Unknown
Materials
Boxwood [buxus sempervirens], Oak
Measurements
78 x 51 x 23 mm
Order this imageCollection
Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion
NT 547853
Summary
Boxwood nut cracker of discoidal form with groove around central well, scotia side and base, into which fits a threaded oak (?) screw with canted oval handle. Inscribed - Nut cracker 20/- was painted black C (label)
Provenance
An item from the Pamela Ward collection, left to the National Trust in the will of Miss Ward in 1994
Marks and inscriptions
Nut cracker 20/- was painted black C (label)