Foot Warmer and Lantern Patent Model
date: label: date made
content: 1853
label: patent date
content: 1854-04-11
name: label: inventor
content: Arnold, Francis
notes: label: Description
content: Full-size patent model (U.S. Patent No. 10,769) of a combination foot warmer or stove and lantern, made by Francis Arnold of Haddam, CT, and patented on April 11, 1854. Features a cast-brass hinged door with quatrefoil heart design backed by insinglas on front, curved gothic- or pointed-arch sides and back, and pendant sawtooth-edged top plate with central circular opening, raised heart-and-daisy motifs in corners and wooden guard attached at front; bail handle looped through tabs in top also has a strip of wood hanging from a wire coil that swings down to support handle when raised. Four square washers on underside of cast-iron bottom plate double as feet. Contains a handled, two-wick, ovoid-body lamp held in place by a brown velvet-covered strap wired to box bottom. Entire piece painted green with metallic gold trim; inventor's name, place and year painted in yellow on cover. Reproduction patent tag with faded red wove ribbon is printed and handwritten with patent information for the "Foot Warmer".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Haddam
label: associated place
content: United States: Connecticut, Haddam
topic: label: Subject
content: Patent Models
label: Subject
content: Lighting
label: Subject
content: Heating
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.251765
label: catalog number
content: 251765
label: patent number
content: 10,769
label: accession number
content: 48890
objectType: label: Object Name
content: warmer, foot
label: Object Name
content: lantern
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (top plate; sides; door material)
label: Physical Description
content: pewter or britannia (lamp material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron, tinned sheet (burner material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron, cast (bottom plate material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (guards; grip material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (exterior finish material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 9 1/8 in x 7 3/8 in; 8.89 cm x 23.1775 cm x 18.7325 cm