Salt Dish
date: label: date made
content: 1880-1920
notes: label: Description
content: Elongated octagonal piercework salt with a clear, cobalt blue glass liner. Underside of flat, inset bottom is engraved "DMFC" in conjoined script at center and struck with six marks above, "MADE / IN / ENGLAND" in incuse sans serif letters below a set of five marks for the Potosi Silver Co., "P", "S", "C\o." and "EP" (sideways), all in individual squares, and a standing spreadwing bird in shield. One of two salts, 1977.0918.04-.05.
label: Description
content: Maker is Potosi Silver Co., a subsidiary firm of Levi & Salaman of Birmingham, England.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Birmingham, Birmingham
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.0918.05
label: accession number
content: 1977.0918
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0918.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dish, salt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silverplate (holder material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (liner material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 2 1/8 in x 1 1/2 in; 3.81 cm x 5.3975 cm x 3.81 cm