CC0 · no rights reserved
Pipe Tongs
From the collection of National Museum of American History. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
With bowed, slender, cylindrical arms terminating in two circular grips or pads extending from contoured handles, one curled inward and the other scrolled out to a pierced disc, that are connected by a hidden hinge held closed by a curled-tip leaf spring bolted inside the disc-end handle. Pick is threaded through arm with disc-end handle, while tamper is attached perpendicular to hinge on the inward-curled handle. No marks.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit linePipe Tongs. 1750 - 1800. National Museum of American History, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood. CC0.
