Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2007.22.088
Accession#:
2007.22
Credit Line:
Transferred from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
Object Name:
Tongs
Title:
Assaying Tongs
Year Range from:
1950
Year Range to:
1996
Description:
Pouring Tongs
Long gray metal tongs. One end is forked to hold crucibles. The other end is a closed oval. There is a wire that extends from the oval end. The wire ascends up over the the forked end.
Used to pick up and move cupel dishes or roasting dishes into and out of the muffle furnace, and for pouring the contents out of a charged crucible and into a button mold.
Long gray metal tongs. One end is forked to hold crucibles. The other end is a closed oval. There is a wire that extends from the oval end. The wire ascends up over the the forked end.
Used to pick up and move cupel dishes or roasting dishes into and out of the muffle furnace, and for pouring the contents out of a charged crucible and into a button mold.
Notes:
The flat arm of the tongs goes over the top of the crucible.
Used to pick up and move cupel dishes or roasting dishes into and out of the muffle furnace, and for pouring the contents out of a charged crucible and into a button mold.
Used to pick up and move cupel dishes or roasting dishes into and out of the muffle furnace, and for pouring the contents out of a charged crucible and into a button mold.
People:
Weir, Kevin
Search Terms:
JMIC
T&E
Mining
Assaying
T&E
Mining
Assaying
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2007.22.088
2007.22.088