Child's Cup
date: label: date made
content: ca 1893
label: engraved date
content: 1890-04-09
label: engraved date
content: 1893-04-09
notes: label: Description
content: Shallow circular cup with straight sides rounded into a flat bottom, decorated on its exterior with bright cut engraved bouquets of daisy-like flowers, their arched stems framing the inscription at front "TO" in a small scroll pierced by an arrow above ""Kid" from Si / 1890. April 9. 1893." in script. Gilt-washed interior with lip around rim; hollow D- or ear-shaped handle. Bottom underside struck incuse with a conjoined "anchor-ended T & S" motif in rectangular outline, "STERLING" in oval outline, and "20". From child's cup and saucer set, 1991.0794.01-.02.
label: Description
content: Maker is A. F. Towle & Son Co.; founded by Anthony Francis Towle and his son Edward Bass Towle as A. F. Towle & Son in Newburyport, MA, 1873; name changed in 1882 and moved to Greenfield, MA in 1890. Company folded in 1900 and was purchased by George C. Lunt in 1902.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Greenfield
topic: label: Subject
content: Beverages
label: Subject
content: Birthdays, General
label: Subject
content: Children
label: Subject
content: Food Culture
label: Subject
content: Gifts & Presents
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
label: See more items in
content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0794.01
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0794.01
label: accession number
content: 1991.0794
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cup
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (gilt washed interior material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 5/8 in x 3 7/8 in x 3 in; 4.1275 cm x 9.8425 cm x 7.62 cm