SOLD Civil War Era Hand-soldered Tin Bakers Cup: Measure, Grater, Cutter, Pie Wheel! early photograph with all hair samples securely

with all hair samples securely attached with black thread stitches

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

the form wonderfully graphic and sculptural

This came from a great stereoview collection and is in very good condition

and concentrations of the Davis family in Virginia and North Carolina

SOLD Civil War Era Hand-soldered Tin Bakers Cup: Measure, Grater, Cutter, Pie Wheel! early photograph with all hair samples securelyI'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