Description

NOVEL PIE CRIMPER — AN ORIGINAL U.S. PATENT MODEL, American, 1863, signed in ink by the inventor “Herbert Marshall, Dracut, Mass.” Well crafted of three woods, this 7″ (18 cm) long full size model has a fine turned handle which swivels, curved brace block to follow the curvature of a pie plate, and the cut wheel with repeating patterns of lines and circles to impress a professional looking design on the dough all around the circumference of the unbaked pie crust top. Condition is very fine, complete with well-framed reproductions of the patent drawings, specifications, and claims.

Mr. Marshall was awarded U.S. patent 37,761 on 24 February 1863 for his novel “Improved Pie-Stamp” with its swivel handle and “lever-guide” by which “the edges of the crusts of pies…can be easily and rapidly pressed together and stamped with a handsome border or figure,…in a neater and more effective manner than it can be done by hand or the ordinary methods.”