Andiron
date: label: date made
content: 1805 - 1843
notes: label: Description
content: Banded-ball-and-multiknopped andiron with smooth baluster shaft and cylindrical base on lapped and spurred cabriole legs ending in creased snake feet on platforms; cast brass billet bar cover ends in a semicircle behind the matching log-stop. Two-part upright, each part cast hollow in halves and seamed vertically. Hollow-cast legs are unfinished on back. All parts held together by an internal iron rod threaded at top and peened at bottom. Adjustable, wrought-iron secondary log stop slides on billet bar. Billet bar cover stamped incuse at end behind log stop "W. H. WEBB." in serif letters. One of a pair, 1978.0939.254-.255.
label: Description
content: Maker is William Holmes Webb (1773-1868), who worked in Warren, ME, 1805-1843.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maine, Warren
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: John Paul Remensnyder
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0939.254
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0939.254
label: accession number
content: 1978.0939
objectType: label: Object Name
content: andiron
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (upright; legs; log stop; billet bar cover material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron, wrought (billet bar; internal rod material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 1/2 in x 12 1/4 in x 21 1/4 in; 36.83 cm x 31.115 cm x 53.975 cm