One-Twentieth Pint Measure
date: label: date made
content: 1820-1870
label: date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description
content: Very small, lidless, bulbous or bellied spirit measure with a cupped rim with single bead lip and cast circular flared foot.; 1/20 pint. Two pairs of faint incised lines at shoulder. Tapered, S-scroll handle with spurred thumbrest and lower short terminal with diamond- or lozenge-shaped attachment at seam. Rim exterior stamped incuse to left of handle "2 0". Bottom interior with diamond, Y-in-triangle and X maker's mark.
label: Description
content: Gaskell & Chambers was established circa 1892 in Birmingham, England; manufacturer of metal bar and drink dispensing equipment (pewter, copper, etc.). They likely made these measures using molds originally owned by James Yates (working under his own name, 1860-1891). Although Gaskell & Chambers did not intend to deceive, their measures have been sold as or faked to be by Yates.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Birmingham, Birmingham
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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 Mrs. Constance Dwan Wylie (Walker Gill Wylie Collection)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.67.0143
label: catalog number
content: 67.0143
label: accession number
content: 250853
objectType: label: Object Name
content: measure
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 5/8 in x 2 3/8 in x 1 5/8 in; 4.1275 cm x 6.0325 cm x 4.1275 cm