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This is a steel cheese sampler for obtaining a section from a large cheese to test its quality. It dates from the eighteenth century.

1 cheese sampler: metal (steel); good conditionThe hammer head and claw may have helped in removing and replacing the cheese mould follower.

MERL 'Catalogue index' card – 'This is a very fine example of a steel cheese scoop. The long blade shaped like a trough was used for obtaining a section of a large cheese to test its quality. The handle has a hammer head at one end a claw at the other. The scoop is 5.25 inches long.', Victoria & Albert Museum No. M347, 1917.

1700-01-01 - 1799-12-31

Eighteenth century