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archive access 1617, inventory number 1505, page 84

The text describes household items, mostly kitchenware, from what appears to be a Dutch home inventory. The items were stored in different locations:

In a fixed tin cabinet on the top shelf were tin vessels including a serving kettle, beer jug, sick-person's jug, pepper container, 6 plates, and 10 flat-rimmed plates. The second shelf contained a copper table bell, tin coffee and tea pots, a sauce bowl with wooden handle, funnels, soap dish, chamber pot, children's items, and plates.

The bottom shelf held:

• A copper serving kettle with basin
• Copper items like a skimmer, graters, pepper container
• 2 copper chafing dishes
• 2 steel snuffers
• Various tin dishes, plates and fish platters
• 3 iron choppers

Other kitchen items included:

• A coffee grinder
• Tea containers
• Candlesticks
• Iron holders
• 2 copper irons with grate
• Various copper and tin cooking pots
• Buckets with copper bands
• Storage barrels
• Red, blue and white earthenware
• Kitchen furniture including tables and chairs
• A clothes box
• A small dressing mirror

In the cellar were copper fish kettles, frying pans and specialty cooking pans. The attic above the kitchen contained two Delft earthenware flower pots, trestles, a painted ladder and a chicken coop.