# Copper jam pan

> The one in the kitchen stays; its twin goes out on loan.

https://vitrine.themes.dev/collection/jam-pan/

- Made by: Unknown coppersmith
- Date: About 1890
- Material: Copper, brass
- Size: 38 cm across
- Cost new: Eleven shillings
- Came from: Dorothy Merrin’s house, 2009
- On view: The kitchen, on the range

Damson jam from the tree in the yard, every September from the 1890s. The pan is copper because copper heats evenly and jam catches in anything else.

The house had two. One is in the kitchen gallery on the range. The other is the most borrowed thing in the library of things, and comes back sticky every autumn.