Meat cleaver
Not on view
Datelate 19th century
Mediumcopper, wood, steel
Dimensions12 1/8 x 3 1/8 in.
ClassificationsHousehold Goods
Credit LineGift of Harry Benet
Object number532.91
Object DescriptionMeat cleaver, curved metal blade, striated surface (perhaps forged by hand), copper bolster and wooden handle. It was originally used by donor's maternal great-grandmother in Plonsk and brought to USA by donor's grandmother, Rose Friedenburg in about 1905-1910. Donor remembers his grandmother chopping fish for the Sabbath using this cleaver. Keywords
- Food
- Families
- Tenement
- Sabbath
- Plonsk
