Quart Measure
date: label: date made
content: ca 1826
notes: label: Description
content: Baluster measure with plain embryo-shell thumb piece; quart size. Stepped, triangular extension is burnt to the flat lid, which has a pair of incised lines around edge and center. Body has a galleried rim and flared base; two incised lines around rim, one at base, and two sets of three around body. Strap handle with stepped thumbrest and short terminal; cylindrical strut. Touchmark inside lid "W.SCOTT" in raised serif letters in a rectangle; illegible scratches outside. Rim exterior has a crowned George IV Edinburgh verification mark; Robert Wright, Dean of Guild mark; and a partial sideways mark with "1826". Bottom outside crudely engraved "ED"; another mark possibly erased.
label: Description
content: There was more than one pewterer named William Scott working in The Grassmarket and West Bow areas of Edinburgh at this time. Probably William Scott (III), 1794-1836. Robert Wright was Dean of Guild, 1825-1827.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: Scotland, Edinburgh
label: place used
content: United Kingdom: Scotland, Edinburgh
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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. Constance Dwan Wylie (Walker Gill Wylie Collection)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.67.0224
label: catalog number
content: 67.0224
label: accession number
content: 250853
objectType: label: Object Name
content: measure
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 3/8 in x 5 3/4 in x 4 1/8 in; 21.2725 cm x 14.605 cm x 10.4775 cm