Soap Dish
date: label: date made
content: ca 1832 - 1839
notes: label: Description
content: Shallow, circular container with rounded tapering sides, flat bottom, and cyma-molded lid with circular boss at center and vertical lip attached by a three-knuckle offset hinge. Tooled or knurled band below rim on bowl exterior. Bottom has two concentric circles on underside and three inside above touchmark for Oliver Trask, consisting of "O•TRASK" in raised serif letters in a finely serrated rectangle.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Beverly
topic: label: Subject
content: Personal Accessories
label: Subject
content: Personal Hygiene
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Dr. Joseph H. Kler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0027.81
label: accession number
content: 1986.0027
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0027.81
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dish, soap
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/8 in x 4 in x 3 11/16 in; 3.4925 cm x 10.16 cm x 9.3345 cm