Songbird Crimper

Date19th Century

Mediumwhale skeletal bone, non-ferrous metal

Dimensions2 5/8 × 1 5/8 × 6 1/2 in. (6.7 × 4.1 × 16.5 cm)

Object number00.155.1

Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum

DescriptionA pie crimper with an octagonal panone handle, mortised with a bone pin onto a U-shaped transverse panbone foreshaft which when viewed from the side is in the abstract shape of a songbird, the "tail" a star-shaped stationary crimper (pastry stamp) (approximnately 315 degrees of a conventional fluted wheel), the other terminating in a saddle, the "eyes" formed by a non-ferrous metal axle, with a distinctive sawtooth-fluted panbone wheel.

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