Bed warmer

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A brass bed warmer. The bed warmer has an elongated handle and a round container covered with a finely decorated and perforated lid. The shaft of the handle is square straight and at the top is an ornate brass handle with a ball tip and a drilled hole at the end. The pan itself is brass, rounded, plain and has a wide lip. It is attached at the lip to the handle with a rivet that has been welded into place. The lid covers the entire pan and is rounded on top and held in place with a hinge. One half of the hinge has seven (7) rivets and has been soldered to the lid and the other half is attached to the handle shaft with two (2) rivets.

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