Name/Title
Flower Nails from Hofmann's Bakery, c. 1920-1970Entry/Object ID
2024.47.12Description
Acc. No. 24.47.12 A-F
Subject Category: Businesses of Alameda, Bakeries
Date or Period: c. 1920s-1970s
Object: flower nails
Description: 6 tools, possibly home-made, composed of a large steel nail through a flat mushroom-shaped disk of untreated wood.
Size (each): L 4", diameter disk: 1 1/2"
History of Object: Flower Nails from Hofmann's Bakery, used to create decorative flowers of piped icing - icing is pushed out to form a petal while the flower nail is slowly being twirled.
Donor: Frederica Kapp
Donation Date: 2022; Catalog Date: 5/22/2024
