Bottle Jack
date: label: date made
content: 1850-1880
notes: label: Description
content: Clockwork roasting jack or spit engine consisting of a tall, slender cylindrical shaft with astragal-arched hanging loop mounted on top of a larger cylinder containing a spring-powered mechanism that winds up with the attached key; turning tip with small suspension hook extends through opening in the flat hexagonal base plate and rotates both clockwise and counterclockwise for even roasting. Open circular keyhole on front above an oval embossed nameplate for "W. S. BURTON (arched) / GENERAL / FURNISHING / IRONMONGER / 39 OXFORD S\T". Missing cast iron spit wheel that hangs from suspension hook.
label: Description
content: William S. Burton was both a manufacturer and retailer of iron and brass bedsteads, lamps, baths, etc.; he operated his showrooms at 39 (then 88) Oxford Street from c. 1847 until the 1880s. Not known if he made this particular jack or was just the seller (see 1982.0090.02 for a nearly identical model patented by John Linwood of Sheffield, England).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
label: place sold
content: United Kingdom: England, London
label: place used
content: United States: Middle Atlantic
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. Ivor Cornman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.62.0231
label: catalog number
content: 62.0231
label: accession number
content: 239502
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jack, bottle
label: Object Name
content: jack, roasting
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (housing material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (hooks; key; hardware; clockwork parts material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (spring and other clockwork parts material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/4 in x 4 13/16 in x 13 3/4 in; 12.065 cm x 12.22375 cm x 34.925 cm