Creamer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1862
label: date matching tea- and coffeepot patented
content: 1862-06-03
label: patent date
content: 1862-06-03
notes: label: Description
content: Mallet-shaped cream pot on short flared base with cable banding around curved rim and wide pouring lip and a flat band at seam above base. Spurred, S-scroll, D- or ear-shaped handle with short terminal. Flat bottom raised with raised circle at center. No marks. From a four-piece coffee and tea service; tea and coffee pots are DL*61.0066A-B, sugar bowl is DL*61.0064A, and creamer is DL*61.0064B.
label: Description
content: The tea- and coffeepot are stamped "E.B. MANNINGS / PATENT", for Edward B. Manning of Cromwell, CT, who received U.S. Patent No. 35,457, dated June 3, 1862, for his "improvement in tea and coffee pots." Manufacturer not known.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place tea- and coffeepot patented
content: United States: Connecticut, Cromwell
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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 Pauline Barnes Woodruff
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.61.0064B
label: catalog number
content: 61.0064B
label: accession number
content: 207405
objectType: label: Object Name
content: creamer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: Britannia (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 4 3/4 in x 3 1/8 in; 15.24 cm x 12.065 cm x 7.9375 cm