Foot Warmer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1750-1800
notes: label: Description
content: Rectangular, slat-top, wood-frame foot warmer or stove with opposed double-baluster supports that holds a perforated tin box with wire-rimmed, hinged door. Box top with three bands of perforations; box sides feature one large hole at center enclosed by a heart in a circle. Wire bail handle hooked through loops on frame top; wire loop pull on box. Doweled through-tenon joints. No marks.
label: Description
content: According to the donor this foot stove was made and owned by Benjamin Farmer (1742-1840) of Rutland, Vermont.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Vermont, Rutland
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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. H. F. Olmstead
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.1187
label: catalog number
content: 60.1187
label: accession number
content: 63164
objectType: label: Object Name
content: warmer, foot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (frame material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (box material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (box material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (handles material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 5/8 in x 8 5/8 in x 7 5/8 in; 14.2875 cm x 21.9075 cm x 19.3675 cm