Teakettle
date: label: date made
content: late 19th century
label: date made
content: ca 1880
notes: label: Description
content: Pit-bottom teakettle with short, bellied gooseneck spout and cast-in square ears above its high, rounded shoulder for the stepped, flat-arched wire bail handle; three button feet. Pivoting, flat lid has two raised beads and swings on bearing beneath back ear. Both pieces are hollow cast: body has a pronounced horizontal seam that extends to top of spout and a raised "||" alongside the single gate mark on bottom exterior; cover bordered by "ROME STOVE WORKS" cast in raised serif letters.
label: Description
content: Maker is Rome Stove Works of Rome, GA.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Georgia, Rome
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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: 1982.0090.15
label: accession number
content: 1982.0090
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0090.15
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teakettle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, cast (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 11 3/8 in x 8 in; 16.51 cm x 28.8925 cm x 20.32 cm