Skimmer
date: label: date made
content: 1795 - 1820
notes: label: Description
content: Large, shallow, circular skimmer attached with one copper and two brass rivets to a slender, faceted, slightly downturned handle flattened into a flared and pointed end with pierced hole; all rivets flat on front and back. Bowl is perforated with small holes arranged into a circle with eight straight radiating arms around the center rivet. Back of handle struck "R.LEE" in raised roman letters in a scalloped rectangle.
label: Description
content: Attributed to Richard Lee Jr. (1775–c. 1858), who worked in Springfield, VT, 1795-1815, and Beverly, MA, 1816-1820. Lee Jr. was the son of Richard Lee Sr. (1747–1823), an itinerant pewterer who worked in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Springfield, VT, between 1773 and 1823. Lee Sr. is believed to have sold brass and pewter made by his son and both Lees are thought to have used the same marks, making it difficult to attribute pieces to the father or son.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Vermont, Springfield
label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Beverly
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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 John Paul Remensnyder
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0939.004
label: accession number
content: 1978.0939
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0939.004
objectType: label: Object Name
content: skimmer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (bowl; handle; two rivets material)
label: Physical Description
content: copper (one rivet material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 15 3/4 in x 5 5/8 in; 5.08 cm x 40.005 cm x 14.2875 cm