A wrought iron ember blowing tube, the cylindrical tapering shaft terminating in a hammered octagonal end with flared opening, applied with a scroll handle with serpent's head, English, late 17th/early 18th century -- 33½in. (85.1cm.) long.

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A wrought iron ember blowing tube, the cylindrical tapering shaft terminating in a hammered octagonal end with flared opening, applied with a scroll handle with serpent's head, English, late 17th/early 18th century -- 33½in. (85.1cm.) long.
See Illustration.

Literature

Seymour Lindsay, Iron and Brass Implements of the English House, Tiranti, 1964. Pages 16-17, for similar example see fig 81.

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