Demi Litre Measure
date: label: date made
content: 19th century
notes: label: Description
content: Bracket-handled, cylindrical metric measure with high collar pinched into spout at front and sloped at back for the rounded inset lid; molded lower rim and base. Hooked tab thumb piece with wedge extension; seven-knuckle hinge has domed-end hinge pin; stepped thumbrest. Stamped on front of body "DEMI LITRE" in incuse serif letters; on front of lower rim with "3" next to clasped hands in an oval; on face of handle and top of lid with clasped hands mark; and on extension and to left of handle with nine letter verification marks. Underside of flat bottom struck with three touchmarks, twice with "AIC" in an imperial crown over a Tudor rose and once below with "F.BOULANGET" in incuse serif letters. One of an assembled set of six metric measures, DL*67.0334-.0339.
label: Description
content: Maker is F. Boulanget, possibly in France or Flanders.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Belgium: Flanders
label: place made
content: France
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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 Mrs. Constance Dwan Wylie (Walker Gill Wylie Collection)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.67.0336
label: catalog number
content: 67.0336
label: accession number
content: 250853
objectType: label: Object Name
content: measure
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 5/8 in x 5 in x 3 3/4 in; 16.8275 cm x 12.7 cm x 9.525 cm