Bell Push
date: label: date made
content: ca 1911 - 1912
label: date made
content: 1910 - 1919
label: date purchased
content: ca 1911 - 1912
notes: label: Description
content: Transclucent white guilloche enamel, pear- or drop-shaped bell push with push button at large end that is attached to a cut and knotted, off-white thread-wrapped, twisted cord. Fitting around button is struck incuse "(8?)30S / S.J" at left, upside-down from "925" and an oval containing a raised "M" and combined star-and-wheel motif. Stored in box 1989.0828.01B.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Europe
label: place used
content: United States: New York, New York City
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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 Mary Livingston Ripley and S. Dillon Ripley
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0828.01A
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0828.01A
label: accession number
content: 1979.0828
objectType: label: Object Name
content: push, bell
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: enamel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: silver (fittings material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (button material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (cord wrapping material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 8 in x 1 in; 2.54 cm x 20.32 cm x 2.54 cm