This fire poker is a basic design that has been used throughout the centuries to attend to a fire for cooking, heating, firing a boiler and similar domestic activities.
Significance
This object is significant as an example of an item in common use in the 19th and early 20th centuries and is still in use today.
Physical description
Fire poker; a flat metal bar shaped with ring at one end and a right angle bend at the base. It is painted black.
