NUTCRACKERS

Three views of a pair of brass nutcrackers, engraved with the name of its owner Thos Waite and dated 1730

A pair of high-quality steel nutcrackers, engraved "W.V." and "R.M." and dated 1772

Two pairs of 18th-century copper-alloy nutcrackers, one of brass, the other bronze, each stamped with the maker's initials "TB", for Thomas Bingham

A pair of late Georgian brass nutcrackersof novelty form

A pair of late Georgian steel nutcrackers and a pair of lobster cracks of similar design

A pair novelty cast-iron nutcrackers of somewhat gruesome skull and crossbones design, the design registered in 1928

An oak screw-form nutcracker, Victorian

A pair of Victorian steel nutcrackers with double-jointed hinge, reversible to accommodate different sizes of nut and a wooden home-made pair of similar design