Candlestick
date: label: date made
content: 1894 - 1935
notes: label: Description
content: Hexagonal or six panel-sided candlestick with fixed, open rolled-edge drip pan on short vase-shaped candle cup or socket and an elongated vase-shaped stem on conforming, trumpet-shaped base with stepped edge. Base underside is struck incuse near edge of one panel "FORBES SILVER PLATE CO. USA" in sans serif letters above "92"; a circled "2" is marked in red pencil or crayon to left. "IIII" possibly lightly scratched on top of base. One of two candlesticks, DL*306994.0050-.0051.
label: Description
content: Maker is Forbes Silver Co. (or Forbes Silver Plate Co.), of Meriden, CT; founded in 1894 as a division of Meriden Britannia Co. and, as such, became part of International Silver Co. in 1898. Only made plated goods; no sterling. Trademarks used by Insilco until circa 1935.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Meriden
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. C. Malcolm Watkins
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.306994.0050
label: catalog number
content: 306994.0050
label: accession number
content: 306994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: candlestick
label: Object Type
content: Candleholders
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 3/4 in x 3 7/8 in x 4 3/8 in; 19.685 cm x 9.8425 cm x 11.1125 cm