Climax Section Jars
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
name: label: maker
content: Whitall Tatum Company
notes: label: Description
content: In 1873, Daniel Campbell Ripley (1850-1912), a glass maker in Pittsburgh, obtained a patent for a set of glass jars that stack one above another. In time, this form became known as Climax Section Jars. This set of three jars is of that sort.
label: Description
content: Ref: Daniel C. Ripley, “Improvement in Jelly-Glasses,” U.S. Patent 139,081 (May 20, 1873).
label: Description
content: “Daniel Campbell Ripley,” Pottery, Glass & Brass Salesman 5 (June 27, 1912).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Millville
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.288177.66
label: catalog number
content: M-13111
label: accession number
content: 288177
label: catalog number
content: 288177.066
objectType: label: Object Name
content: candy jar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: small jar: 4 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in; 11.43 cm x 11.43 cm
label: Measurements
content: medium jar: 5 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in; 13.97 cm x 13.97 cm
label: Measurements
content: large jar: 6 1/2 in x 6 1/2 in; 16.51 cm x 16.51 cm
label: Measurements
content: lid: 1 1/2 in x 5 3/4 in; 3.81 cm x 14.605 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 in x 9 1/4 in; 60.96 cm x 23.50008 cm