Pot
date: label: date made
content: 1822-1846
notes: label: Description
content: Cooking pot on three, semicircular feet with a flared lip, bulbous body and forged bail handle looped around triangular lugs or ears; square rim and inner beaded lip. Hollow cast with two fillets around body, the lower one is a horizontal seam; two vertical seams on upper half and single gate mark on bottom exterior. Cast-in mark on side of two concentric circles with "HOWELL WORKS" in raised serif letters placed between them and a raised "2" inside the innermost circle.
label: Description
content: Maker is Howell Works, located in present-day Farmingdale, Monmouth County, NJ. Furnace in operation, 1822-1846; business declared bankruptcy in 1850.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Farmingdale
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Estate of John Paul Remensnyder
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0090.77
label: accession number
content: 1982.0090
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0090.77
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, cast (pot material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron, wrought (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/8 in x 7 1/4 in x 5 3/4 in; 13.6525 cm x 18.415 cm x 14.605 cm