Teakettle
date: label: date made
content: ca 1861
label: date made
content: ca 1861-1880
label: patent date
content: 1861-01-01
notes: label: Description
content: Pit-bottom teakettle with bellied gooseneck spout, single fillet around rounded shoulder and cast-in arched ears for the strap bail handle, concave in section; three button feet. Pivoting, stepped lid with conical knop swings on bearing beneath back ear. Both pieces are hollow cast: body has a pronounced horizontal seam that extends to top of spout, with a single gate mark and raised "8" on bottom exterior; cover has "FULLER, WARREN & CO. TROY, N.Y." above "PAT'D. JAN. 1 / 1861.", all cast in raised sans serif letters around center.
label: Description
content: Maker is Fuller, Warren & Co., Clinton Stove Works of Troy, NY. Ezra Ripley of Troy, NY, received U.S. Patent No. 31,055 for his "improved and more convenient article of tea-kettle cover" on January 1, 1861; reissued U.S. Patent No. 2,122 on December 5, 1865.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Troy
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Estate of John Paul Remensnyder
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0090.30
label: accession number
content: 1982.0090
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0090.30
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teakettle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, cast (kettle, lid material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron, wrought (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/4 in x 13 1/8 in x 8 1/2 in; 18.415 cm x 33.3375 cm x 21.59 cm