Teakettle
date: label: date made
content: after 1861
label: date made
content: ca 1861-1880
label: patent date
content: 1861-01-01
notes: label: Description
content: Pit-bottom teakettle with bellied gooseneck spout and cast-in square ears on its high, rounded shoulder for the strap bail handle, slightly concave in section. Pivoting, low-domed lid has a cast-in, arched and pierced grip at front and swings on bearing above back ear. Both pieces are hollow cast: body has a horizontal, banded seam that extends to top of spout and single gate mark on bottom exterior; cover bordered by "H. SEABURY ALBANY" and "COVER PAT.'D - JAN 1. 1861", both cast in raised sans serif letters, with an "8'" inside a medallion at center.
label: Description
content: Maker is Hilan Seabury of Albany, NY. Ezra Ripley of Troy, NY, received U.S. Patent No. 31,055 for his "improved and more convenient article of tea-kettle cover" on January 1, 1861; reissued U.S. Patent No. 2,122 on December 5, 1865.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Albany
topic: label: Subject
content: Patented
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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: 1982.0090.19
label: accession number
content: 1982.0090
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0090.19
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teakettle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, cast (pot, cover material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron, wrought (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 3/4 in x 12 in x 8 1/8 in; 19.685 cm x 30.48 cm x 20.6375 cm