"Double Litre" Measure
date: label: date made
content: ca 1860
label: date made
content: 1830-1848
notes: label: Description
content: Handleless, lidless cylindrical metric measure with heavy molded rim and base. Stamped on front of body "DOUBLE LITRE" in incuse serif letters and with a small imperial crown below rim. Flat bottom struck once with touchmark "FAUVEAU-LORIN (arched) / RUE S\TE MARGUERITE (arched) / S[???]" in incuse serif letters. One of an assembled set of seven metric measures, DL*67.0303-.0309.
label: Description
content: Maker is Fauveau-Lorin of Paris, France.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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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.67.0303
label: catalog number
content: 67.0303
label: accession number
content: 250853
objectType: label: Object Name
content: measure
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/8 in x 5 1/4 in; 23.1775 cm x 13.335 cm