365-2017-260 - Sugar Cutters
Unusual implements: sugar nips (or sugar cutters) such as these were a regular household tool until the late 19th or early 20th century. Sugar was sold in the form of large, roughly conical, sugar loaves, and these "nips" were used to bite off small usable chunks. With the introduction of granulated and cube sugars in the late nineteenth century, usage of sugar loaves, and hence sugar nips, gradually declined.
365-2017-260 - Sugar Cutters
Unusual implements: sugar nips (or sugar cutters) such as these were a regular household tool until the late 19th or early 20th century. Sugar was sold in the form of large, roughly conical, sugar loaves, and these "nips" were used to bite off small usable chunks. With the introduction of granulated and cube sugars in the late nineteenth century, usage of sugar loaves, and hence sugar nips, gradually declined.