"Double Litre" Measure
date: label: date made
content: 1883-1917
notes: label: Description
content: Large, lidless, bracket-handled cylindrical metric measure with heavy molded rim and base. Stamped on front of body "DOUBLE LITRE" in incuse serif letters; on outside of rim and face of handle with "1" next to clasped hands in an elongated hexagon; and along top of rim with 58 letters and shapes. Flat bottom struck once with a shaped touchmark of a sun over an undecipherable motif between the raised serif letters "AP" and "AP", surrounded by three stars and three crowns. One of an assembled set of eight metric measures, DL*67.0310-.0317.
label: Description
content: Maker is probably Auguste Anthoine of Paris, France, 1883-1917.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
label: See more items in
content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Constance Dwan Wylie (Walker Gill Wylie Collection)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.67.0310
label: catalog number
content: 67.0310
label: accession number
content: 250853
objectType: label: Object Name
content: measure, double liter
label: Object Name
content: measure
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/8 in x 6 3/4 in x 5 1/8 in; 23.1775 cm x 17.145 cm x 13.0175 cm