Tobacco Box
date: label: date made
content: 1886-1928
notes: label: Description
content: Rounded rectangular,lidded box on four button feet with overall chased baroque-style decoration of scrolls, shells, flowers and diapering; a wide band wrapped around bottom of sides features repeating relief scenes of men and women dancing and socializing in a tavern or inn. Lid has a scalloped tab at front and is attached with a five-knuckle hinge at back. Wood lined. Bottom underside struck "E", "G", "W", "&", and "S" all in raised gothic or Old English script in individual square surrounds.
label: Description
content: Maker is E. G. Webster & Son of Brooklyn, NY, 1886-1928. Named for Elizur Goodwin Webster (1829-1900) and his son, Frederick Hezekiah Webster (b. 1860); successor firm to E. G. Webster & Brother (Elizur and Adelbert Ashley Webster) of New York, NY, 1865-1886, also known as Webster Manufacturing Co., 1866-1874. E. G. Webster & Son was purchased by International Silver Co. in 1928, but the trademark was used until c. 1961 when it was consolidated with Wilcox Silver Plate Co. (founding member of Insilco in 1898) into Webster-Wilcox. (See Rainwater, Encyclopedia of American Silver Manufacturers.)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
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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 Lucinda de Leftwich Templin, Ph.D., in memory of Ella Rice Templin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.61.0309
label: catalog number
content: 61.0309
label: accession number
content: 200122
objectType: label: Object Name
content: box, tobacco
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (lining material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 6 1/4 in x 4 5/8 in; 7.62 cm x 15.875 cm x 11.7475 cm