Dish
date: label: date made
content: 1886 - 1928
name: label: maker
content: Elizur G. Webster and Son
notes: label: Description
content: Shallow, circular dish or bowl made from one piece with an irregular, rolled rim and uneven well; no foot. Pierced with one hole at side of well. Bottom underside struck incuse "E.G. WEBSTER & SON / 97" in sans serif letters. Reddish finish.
label: Description
content: Maker is E. G. Webster & Son of Brooklyn, NY, 1886-1928. Named for Elizur Goodwin Webster (1829-1900) and his son, Frederick Hezekiah Webster (b. 1860); successor firm to E. G. Webster & Brother (Elizur and Adelbert Ashley Webster) of New York, NY, 1865-1886, also known as Webster Manufacturing Co., 1866-1874. E. G. Webster & Son was purchased by International Silver Co. in 1928, but the trademark was used until c. 1961 when the line was consolidated with Wilcox Silver Plate Co. (a founding member of Insilco in 1898) into Webster-Wilcox.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
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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 Amos S. Deinard and Benedict Deinard
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.315267
label: accession number
content: 207992
label: catalog number
content: 315267
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dish
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: copper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 4 1/4 in; 1.27 cm x 10.795 cm