Scot's Pint Measure
date: label: date made
content: ca 1700
label: date made
content: ca 1730
notes: label: Description
content: Pot-bellied measure with a tongued, scroll thumb piece, engraved "IT.MF" in serif letters on belly to right of handle; Scot's pint size. Ridged, wedge extension is burnt to the flat-domed lid, which has one incised circle around center and a pair near rim. Body has a molded, flared rim and convex pedestal base with two incised lines around neck, three at shoulder, and two around base. S-scrolled handle with five-knuckle hinge, ridged thumbrest and unusual, pyramid-top bud terminal; conical strut. Interior with plouk or pimple below rim indicating capacity level. Flat bottom has one incised circle outside and circular touchmark of Lachlan Dallas of Inverness inside.
label: Description
content: Maker is Lachlan Dallas of Inverness, working 1720-1753.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: Scotland, Inverness
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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.67.0212
label: catalog number
content: 67.0212
label: accession number
content: 250853
objectType: label: Object Name
content: measure
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 3/8 in x 6 3/4 in x 5 1/8 in; 26.3525 cm x 17.145 cm x 13.0175 cm