Speaking Trumpet
date: label: date made
content: ca 1800 - 1840
notes: label: Description
content: Japanned speaking trumpet, painted black with red, green and yellow leaflets alternating with red-dotted flowers where the bell joins the shaft, and a yellow rickrack border around the bell. Mouthpiece, shaft and bell all have soft-soldered lapped-seams; bell with folded edge. No marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0119.36
label: accession number
content: 1978.0119
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0119.36
objectType: label: Object Name
content: trumpet, speaking
label: Object Name
content: horn
label: Object Type
content: horn
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tinned sheet iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: asphaltum (exterior decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (exterior decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 15/16 in x 2 15/16 in x 15 3/8 in; 7.46125 cm x 7.46125 cm x 39.0525 cm