Harry Piers: Museum Maker

Notes from Piers Accession Book: Brass, handmade "Warming-pan", about a hundred years old. (A warming-pan was a metal vessel with a hinged cover, for containing live coals, for warming the sheets of a bed in winter.  This household utensil, formerly well known, went out of general use probably about 1830 or 1840).  The rather long wooden handle is missing.

From southwestern part of Nova Scotia; collected a few years ago (continued...)

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Date Accessioned: 6 November 1923

Reference: Harry Piers number 5366  Nova Scotia Museum History Collection