Glass Christmas Ornament
date: label: date made
content: 1870-1890
notes: label: Description
content: Free-blown and molded glass holiday or Christmas ornament. Ball with finial on bottom, thin, swirled band around center. Mirrored silver. Metal cap around top opening, may be a later addition. Thin bent wire hook inserted into top, with heavy bent wire hook attached. Metal cap has “MADE [illegible]” stamped on top. No other marks. Cap likely dates after 1937. In 1937, a tariff decision (no. 54387) reversed earlier decisions regarding the marking of ornaments with their country of origin, established in the 1890 MicKinley Tariff Act and the Smoot-Havley Tariff Act of 1930. The ornament itself now had to be marked with with its country of origin by stamping it into the cap or by way of tag or sticker.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
label: place used
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
topic: label: Subject
content: Christmas
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey L. Jones
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.298065.0289
label: catalog number
content: 298065.0289
label: accession number
content: 298065
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ornament, christmas tree
label: Object Type
content: ornaments
label: Other Terms
content: Ornament; Decorations
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: sphere (ornament shape)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (hanger material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/8 in x 2 1/2 in; 10.4775 cm x 6.35 cm