TREEN
A pair of 18th- or early 19th-century turned beech plates from the Bateman Collection, sold at Sotheby's in July, 1893. William Bateman was a noted antiquarian and archaeologist whose collections are largely now in the Weston Park Museum, Sheffield
A rare 17th-century turned fruitwood, biscuit forcer, which has an internal plunger and a star-pierced iron plate in its base through which the biscuit paste is forced
A fine 18th-century turned fruitwood rolling pin, the tapering design to allow thicker pastry at the edges for use when using a wooden pie dolly to raise a pie-case, the thickness evening out as the pastry is drawn up the dolly
Two early 20th-century sycamore pie dollies which were used in the production of pork pies by Messrs Horn, Nr Rampton, Nottinghamshire and sold by Henry Spencers, Auctioneers in the 1980s.
An early 19th-century treen vegetable slicer or "Mandolin", with steel blade. Similar examples are found in ivory.
A pair of well-patinated sycamore plates or trenchers of the 18th century or earlier
An early 19th-century turned sycamore spice tower of four compartments each with a paper label, for Mace, Cloves, Nutmeg and Cinnamon
An 18th-century hardwood fruit or potato peeler on the spokeshave principle, but with thin sheet-iron cutterscarved with hearts as a love token, the handle carved with a pastry jigger with mother-of-pearl enrichments and also inlaid in pewter with an anchor, a carved clenched hand at the other end
Two 19th-century sycamore potato mashers
A 19th-century turned wood pastry brush
A 19th-century turned lignum vitae string box with screw-on cover
A finely-turned fruitwood wine goblet, probably 18th century
A fine late 17th-/early 18th-century lignum vitae mortar
Mr John Richardson of Kendal and his wife, on his 90th birthday, 13th May, 1864, on the arm of his Westmorland wainscot chair his 17th-century yew wood tankard, lacking its lid, his tobacco pipe hooked through the handle. Having recognised it from the unforgettable image of the Richardsons above, I was fortunate enough to be able to buy the tankard at auction in London, in 1999
