Can anybody tell me what these pliers were used for and who made them. I can't find any identifying marks on them. We found them in one of our buildings that had been used for storage for many years

Seems my mother used something like that to lift Mason jars out of a boiling pot, and my wife used one when sterilizing baby bottles.

Probably came with an old camping cook kit for lifting hot pots off of the stove or fire.

Quote from: Papaw on August 17, 2012, 05:25:49 PM
Seems my mother used something like that to lift Mason jars out of a boiling pot, and my wife used one when sterilizing baby bottles.

As I recall, the mason jar tongs had jaws that grabbed both sides of the top.  Baby bottle tongs is what they look like to me.

I believe that is a pan gripper. You use them for pans that don't have a large lip such as a pizza pan.

Pan lifters - similar are sold with Trangia camping stoves in the UK

These pliers belong to the museum where I work. I was trying to do the museum documentation that is required before an object can be displayed. I couldn't find pan lifters in the nomenclature book that we use, but I found pot lifter. When I Googled that, I found pictures similar to our object. Thank you for the help.

Which museum do you work in?

I work at the La Crete Mennonite Heritage Village in La Crete, Alberta, Canada.