Glue Pot
date: label: date made
content: 19th century
label: date made
content: 1850-1900
notes: label: Description
content: Two-piece hide glue pot consisting of an inner cylindrical pot with flat rim that fits into an outer, turnip-shape jacket pot, both with wire bail handles looped around semicircular tabs and flat bottoms. Both pieces hollow cast with single gate mark on bottom exterior. Jacket pot has cast-in marks "J.M:B.D. & CO." and "ALBANY, NY" in raised serif letters inside two, low-relief, astragal-ended rectangles on opposite sides of its shoulder; a horizontal seam runs around body below.
label: Description
content: Maker is J. M. B. Davidson and Co., Albany, NY.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Albany
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Estate of John Paul Remensnyder
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0090.41
label: accession number
content: 1982.0090
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0090.41
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pot, glue
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, cast (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/8 in x 5 5/8 in x 6 1/8 in; 10.4775 cm x 14.2875 cm x 15.5575 cm