Graver

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Object Name: 
Graver
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
England, Brierley Hill
Accession Number: 
55.7.1
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1900
Credit Line: 
Gift of Frederick Carder
Primary Description: 
Brown brass, steel; turned, assembled. Brass tubing, with tapered, oval head at one end; a short steel rod inset in the tip, polished to a three-sided point.

More Info

Department: 
Science and Technology; Modern
Provenance: 
Carder, Frederick (American, b. United Kingdom, 1863-1963), Source
1955
Color: 
brown
Technique: 
turned, assembled
turning

Publications (5)

Mt. Washington and Pairpoint Glass (2005) illustrated, p. 264, Fig. 11-1; BIB# 88066
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass: Checklist of the Exhibition (1999) illustrated, p. 16; BIB# 63967
English Cameo Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1994) illustrated, pp. 15-16, 59, figs. 10-11; BIB# 35913
Cameo Glass: Masterpieces from 2000 Years of Glassmaking (1982) illustrated, pp. 96, 129, #156; BIB# 30609
The Glass of Frederick Carder (1971) p. 12, fig. 16; BIB# 27279