Handle: a Wired Tinplate Lifting Handle, Riveted and Soldered On (Hasluck, 1907)

A tinsmith's lifting handle is a strip of tinplate cut to a tapering pattern, stiffened with wire along its edges and bent so its narrow end curls into a ring, then riveted and soldered to the vessel. Paul N. Hasluck's Tinplate Work (1907) gives it for the strainer of a fish kettle (Figs. 185-186). He gives no sizes for the pattern or the wire; those are unknown here. Source: P. N. Hasluck, Tinplate Work (1907), pp. 89-90. Picture: his Figs. 185 and 186.