Antique Italian early 1900s Turned Wood Salt Shaker Elegant Design with Screw Top.
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Antique Italian early 1900s Turned Wood Salt Shaker Elegant Design with Screw Top.
Size 23 x 9 cm
An 1872 newspaper stated: "A pepper-box for salt is the latest Yankee invention.
Salt shakers became increasingly common after anti-caking agents were introduced by the Morton Salt company in 1911. The Great Depression of the 1930s boosted the popularity of salt and pepper shakers as global ceramics producers concentrated on inexpensive items.
Except in the most casual dining establishments, they are usually provided as a matched set, sometimes distinguishable only by the number of holes on the top of the shaker.
