Object number
68/419
Description
A chopper used to roughly chop herbs and other foods. Found in a yard at Llantissent at Monmouth.
This is a chopper used to roughly chop herbs and other foods. The chopper has 3 iron curved blades, with a wooden handle at either end. This chopper was found in yard of a house at Llantissent at Monmouth, the house belonged to a family of German origin, thus the chopper may have also been German in origin.
Physical description
1 chopper: wood and metal [iron]; fair condition: rusted
Archival history
MERL ‘Handwritten Catalogue’ form - ‘CHOOPER // DOMESTIC- preparing food // Mrs A. A. Parris, Penycaemawr, Usk, Monmouthshire // wood iron, rusted. Found in yard if house at Llantrisant, Monmouth. House belonged to people with German origin- Hamburg? Possibly the chopper is German’
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External document
- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_9426.tif - High resolution image
