Double Litre Measure
date: label: date made
content: 1838-1885
notes: label: Description
content: Bracket-handled, cylindrical metric measure with high collar pinched into spout at front and sloped at back for the rounded inset lid; molded lower rim and base. Hooked tab thumb piece with wedge extension; seven-knuckle hinge. Stamped on front of body "DOUBLE LITRE" in incuse serif letters; on front of lower rim, face of handle and top of lid with clasped hands in a small oval; and along top of inside rim with 19 illegible letter verification marks. Underside of flat bottom struck once with touchmark "LECLERC (arched) / A LILLE / HUMBERT (curved)" in an oval. One of an assembled set of six metric measures, DL*67.0334-.0339.
label: Description
content: Maker is Leclerc Humbert of Lille, France.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Hauts-de-France, Lille
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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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.67.0334
label: catalog number
content: 67.0334
label: accession number
content: 250853
objectType: label: Object Name
content: measure
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 3/8 in x 7 1/8 in x 5 1/2 in; 26.3525 cm x 18.0975 cm x 13.97 cm