Name/Title
Grinder, MeatEntry/Object ID
1993.197Description
Very heavy, thick wood box. Lid has square hole in top, chamford edges, hinged lid. Inside - an iron toothed cylinder which is turned by long curved wood ended iron handle to chop meat against iron blades attached to inside box base. Hole at handle end of base. Iron rod protrudes from other end - flattened with hole at end, hook and eye (2) closure. Ends screwed and nailed on.
Label. inside lid: Meat Chopper - Used in Germantown about 1780 for grinding sausage meat and for hamberg (sic) steak, Present by H. Wetherstine.Made/Created
Date made
1775 - 1835Notes
Creation Date: 1775-1835Dimensions
Height
8-5/8 inWidth
19-1/4 inDepth
9 inProvenance
Notes
Object donated by H. Wetherstine.