Union Hardware ice skates
date: label: date made
content: 1860
name: label: maker
content: Union Hardware Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Ice skates with leather toe straps and brass reinforced heel cups on wooden stocks with hollow metal runners with curved toe. Marked "27". In 1939, these skates were bought by the former head of the Air and Space Museum, Paul Garber, for $1.00 in an antique shop in Frederick Maryland. He then donated them to the National Museum. The Union Hardware Company began in 1864 and manufactured ice skates in a variety of styles with the signature three leaf clover stamped out of each toe plate.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: name of sport
content: Ice Skating
label: level of sport
content: recreational
label: web subject
content: Sports
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CL.62.360
label: catalog number
content: 62.360
label: accession number
content: 154794
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Skates, Ice, Pair of
label: Object Name
content: skates, pair of
label: Object Name
content: ice skates
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/2 in x 4 in x 4 in; 29.21 cm x 10.16 cm x 10.16 cm