Flatware Case
date: label: date flatware made
content: ca 1890
name: label: name on calling card; owner
content: Washington, Hugh Vernon
notes: label: Description
content: Rectangular, hinged-lid case covered in a golden-brown, animal- or reptile-patterned stamped velvet with silverplate clasp on front. Purple silk satin-lined interior with a white silk satin ribbon stretched diagonally across inside lid stamped in gold "J.H. & W.W. WILLIAMS, / MACON, GA."; bottom inside is fitted and trimmed with purple and white cording; ribbon straps attached inside corners prevent the lid from falling back. Two calling cards for "Miss Turner." and "Hugh V. Washington." are tucked behind ribbon. Original case for six "Arlington" pattern teaspoons, DL.60.1012A-F (stored separately).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place flatware made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Newburyport
label: place retailed; place owned; place used
content: United States: Georgia, Macon
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Ellen Washington Bellamy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.1012G
label: catalog number
content: 60.1012G
label: accession number
content: 71656
objectType: label: Object Name
content: case
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: velvet (covering material)
label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (support material)
label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (clasp material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (lining, ribbon, cording material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (stamped lettering material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (calling cards material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (calling cards material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 7 5/8 in x 4 1/8 in; 5.715 cm x 19.3675 cm x 10.4775 cm