Ladle
date: label: date made
content: ca 1884
notes: label: Description
content: Ladle with deep circular bowl and upturned rounded handle with crease running length of front. Oval strapwork reserve on back of terminal and a trefoil with fleur-de-lis design on back of bowl. Back of shaft struck incuse with maker's and patent mark.
label: Description
content: "Breveté Sans Garantie Du Gouvernement" is type of French patent that frees the government from liability. One of three ladles, DL*126963-DL*126965, made in England and collected by the State Department at the 1884 World's Fair (or World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition) in New Orleans. All recorded as English, but this one was made in France.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: 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: U. S. Department of State
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.126965
label: catalog number
content: 126965
label: accession number
content: 17041
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ladle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, white (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 13 1/2 in x 3 5/8 in; 5.715 cm x 34.29 cm x 9.2075 cm