  About the Artwork
  
  
  Title
  Cake and Sandwich Trowel
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1936 or 1937
  
  
  
  
  Makers
  
  
  Walter Von Nessen  (Artist)
  American, 1889 - 1943
  Chase Brass and Copper Company  (Manufacturer)
  American
  
  
  
  Medium
  Nickel-plated brass and Bakelite
  
  
  Dimensions
  Overall: 8 1/2 × 1 7/8 × 2 1/2 inches (21.6 × 4.8 × 6.4 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Metalwork
  
  
  Department
  American Art before 1950
  
  
  Credit
  Gift of Jerome M. and Patricia J. Shaw and Susann and Larry Spilkin
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  1984.57
  
  
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