Snuffers
date: label: date made
content: mid 19th century
label: date made
content: 1860 - 1910
notes: label: Description
content: Scissors-type snuffers on three baluster or teardrop feet. Contoured, opposed S-scroll handles with equal-size oval finger holes are joined by a circular pivot with cast floral washer; spear-point lower blade has an attached rectangular box ornamented with applied cast C scrolls and a shell, while upper blade has a conforming vertical tab that fits inside box. Exterior side of tab is struck with five marks in individual textured surrounds, including a five-point star and "C\o" in Old English or gothic letters. Part of snuffers and tray, DL*60.0975A-B.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Sheffield, Sheffield
label: place used
content: United States: Connecticut, Bridgeport
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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 Miss Helen P. Mulliken
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.0975A
label: catalog number
content: 60.0975A
label: accession number
content: 229362
objectType: label: Object Name
content: snuffers
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 5/8 in x 7 in x 2 3/8 in; 4.1275 cm x 17.78 cm x 6.0325 cm