Nutcracker
Category
Wooden objects
Date
Unknown
Materials
Sycamore
Measurements
223 x 47 x 57 mm
Order this imageCollection
Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion
NT 549248
Summary
Stained carved sycamore nut cracker. Tapered handle with twisted ribbon effect and threaded end screwing onto a seated squirrel eating a nut with both paws, grooved exterior, hollow in belly for nut. Inscribed - Reg squirrel nut cracker see stipple eyebrows D 20/- (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
Reg squirrel nut cracker see stipple eyebrows D 20/- (label)