Museum number:

APM 20.826

Subcollection:

smokers' utensils

Title:

snuff rasp

Keyword:

burning heart crowned, family crest

Description:

Snuff rasp made of wood with an elongated oval shape, the lower side rounded, the top raised with a narrow shell shape in which a bowl to let the snuff out, the back carved with a shell below and above, in the middle a standing crowned oval with a burning heart between branches, surrounded by leaf branches, below and above the field filled with leaf ornaments, the edge a kind of egg frame, the reverse side a convex red copper grater, the lower half upside down a farmer's family coat of arms with two flails, above which three stars, a helmet with flight, c-volutes on the sides.

Date:

Period

1750 - 1780

Dimensions:

General	Height	12.2 in (31 cm)
	Width	3.82 in (9.7 cm)
	Thickness	1.22 in (3.1 cm)