Gum Holder
date: label: Date made
content: 1898
name: label: maker
content: Peggy Company
notes: label: Description
content: Lunken's Peggy is a small, lidded, metal cup used for the temporary parking of a wade of used chewing gum while its owner was otherwise occupied. In the 1890s, Edmund Lunken (formerly Lunkenheimer) of Cincinnati, left the leadership of his Lunkenheimer Valve Company, moved to Denver, Colorado, and embarked upon a series of inventive pursuits. Among these was The Peggy.
label: Description
content: Named for the metal peg the gum was speared upon, Peggies were manufactured out of beautifully lithographed tin-plated sheet iron at The Peggy Company in Cincinnati. Lunken's goal was to sell quantities of Peggies or the rights to them to the Wrigley gum company in Chicago, a move that was not successful.
label: Description
content: Attractive chewing gum storage containers were not unknown in the 19th century. Like match safes, gum safes were decorative personal-care fashion accessories for an urbanizing society still experimenting with new ways of looking and acting stylishly modern. Gum safes ultimately went the way of watch fobs, walking sticks, and buggy whips as fanciful elements of a bygone era.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Cincinnati
topic: label: Subject
content: Costume
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MC.333749
label: catalog number
content: 333749
label: accession number
content: 303687
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Chewing Gum Container
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 1 1/4 in x 7/8 in x 3.2 cm; 3.81 cm x 3.175 cm x 2.2225 cm x 1 1/4 in