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TRIVETS AND TOASTING FORKS 



By Elizabeth Lounsbery 

 Photographs by T. C. Turner 



FEATURE of the open fireplace, suggestive of both comfort and convenience and an essen- 

 tial in every home, in times gone by, was the trivet, a brass and iron stand, which became a 

 substitute for the hobb. The trivet, used to keep the kettle of water or plate of toast 

 warm and placed close to a wood fire or hung in the grate, when coal was burned, is to be 

 found at nominal cost, even to-day, in the popular lyre design. The double stand shown 

 in the accompanying illustration, with a place for both kettle and plate, is not so often seen, 

 nor is the American made trivet of Colonial times, which was used as a foot warmer and had a place 

 on the hearth of many homes. In its modern adaptation, the trivet has become not only a decorative 

 feature in the scheme of the mantel-piece or open fireplace of the country house, but is of great service 

 at tea hour. Accompanying the trivet was the long handled toasting fork, more extensively used through- 

 out England than in other countries. Excellent reproductions of these early examples are now to be had. 



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