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17th century

Tobacco Rasp

Artist/maker unknown

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This rasp would have been used for shredding tobacco, which, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was sniffed. The scene on its front is taken from the biblical story of Tobias and the fish.

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Artist/maker unknown, Tobacco Rasp, 17th century | Philadelphia Museum of Art