Lot Essay
According to contemporary price guides, a similar star decorated collander would have cost the average consumer $.70 in 1865. (Lasansky, p. 35).
Details
TWO PIERCED TINNED SHEET METAL COLLANDERS
PENNSYLVANIA, 19TH CENTURY
The first circular with applied molded D-shaped handles, molded and pierced lunette-decorated tapering sides surrounding a slightly dished base centering pierced rosette, all on a molded ring foot; the second a circular form with applied molded D-shaped handles with straight sides enclosing a slightly dished base centering a pierced rosette-star with lunette and dot surround, on three cone feet--6in. high, 12 ¾in. diam. the largest
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PENNSYLVANIA, 19TH CENTURY
The first circular with applied molded D-shaped handles, molded and pierced lunette-decorated tapering sides surrounding a slightly dished base centering pierced rosette, all on a molded ring foot; the second a circular form with applied molded D-shaped handles with straight sides enclosing a slightly dished base centering a pierced rosette-star with lunette and dot surround, on three cone feet--6in. high, 12 ¾in. diam. the largest
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Provenance
Richard Machmer, October 18, 1981
Literature
Lasansky, To Cut, Piece and Solder, p. 35.