✅ SOLVED Just wondering if anyone knows what this is

[bigcaddy]

It says "the Barnard Co"
PAT.APL'D FOR BOSTON,MASS

It's aluminum.

 

[Subterranean]

Holes are too big for it to be a tea strainer, I am leaning toward it being a soap tray, to hold a bar of soap. Sub

 

[bigcaddy]

that's kind of what I thought but the way the aluminum wraps around something doesn't seem like a very strong connection. I tried to search for the Barnard co but didn't' have much luck. Found in Central PA

 

[1320]

Egg strainer/poacher?

 

[Bramblefind]

I think it is a "kettle spoon holder" that fits over the rim of the kettle. Here is a 1910 ad for one made by The Barnard Co.

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Boston Cooking-School Magazine, Aug.-Sept., 1910, Vol. XV, No. 2, by Various.

And also another vintage ad with a depiction of one.

 

[releventchair]

Excellent tracking job Bramblefind!

 

[1320]

I think it is a "kettle spoon holder" that fits over the rim of the kettle. Here is a 1910 ad for one made by The Barnard Co.

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Boston Cooking-School Magazine, Aug.-Sept., 1910, Vol. XV, No. 2, by Various.

And also another vintage ad with a depiction of one.

Solved! Well done.

 

[bigcaddy]

nice. that's exactly it. Thanks,
Tom

 

[sutphin]

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