Collection Highlights
Grenadier cap
Date:
1740-1770
Object Number:
1890.3
Medium:
Wool, linen
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Food spear
Object Number:
2002.1.2372
Date:
1940-1960
Medium:
Wood
Dimensions:
3 x 1/2 in.
Description:
This wood spear is a "doneness" marker for meat and has a flat tab on one end as a handle and a point on the other for spearing. The tab end reads on one side "Hamburg-Heaven", and on the reverse "Medium".
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
