Wafer tongs

Made:: 1701-1800

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Wafer tongs, iron, circular platen, probably Italian
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Wafer tongs, iron, circular platen, probably Italian, 18th century

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A635956

Materials:: iron

type:: wafer tongs

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Wafer tongs

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