Coal scuttles are usually made of metal but wooden varieties are known. There are many shapes and sizes to suit all tastes from vertical cylinder or truncated cone with open top slanted for pouring coal on a fire. It may have one or two handles.Copper coal scoops and brass helmet shaped coal scuttles, plain or decorative along with the wooden counterpart can all be readily found. The wooden scuttle variety usually had a zinc coated steel liner along with a small shovel to transport the coal from the scuttle to the fire.
Homes that do not use coal sometimes use a coal scuttle decoratively.
