Foot Warmer
date: label: date made
content: 1820 - 1850
notes: label: Description
content: Rectangular, slat-top, wooden frame foot warmer or stove with opposed double-baluster supports that holds a perforated tin box with wire-rimmed, hinged door; a square brazier or pan for holding heat source, made of a single cut and folded piece with bent front rim for handling, is inside. Box top has three bands of punched circles, while sides feature one large hole at center enclosed by a heart in a circle. Drawn-wire bail handle hooked through loops on frame top; brass wire pull on box. Doweled through-tenon joints. No marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts
label: place used
content: United States: Massachusetts, Arlington
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Scott Adams
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.392936
label: catalog number
content: 392936
label: accession number
content: 206516
objectType: label: Object Name
content: warmer, foot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (frame material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (box; pan material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (box; pan material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (bail handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass wire (door handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 7/8 in x 7 5/8 in x 9 in; 14.9225 cm x 19.3675 cm x 22.86 cm