Ice Bucket Holder
date: label: date made
content: ca 1899-1945
notes: label: Description
content: Two-handled, tapered cylindrical holder on four compressed-ball feet, its sides made of four horizontal and six vertical bands held together with dome-headed rivets; circular flat bottom set in. Two loop handles, tapered square in section, follow curve of body. Bottom underside struck "STERLING CAPS" arched above three raised gothic or Old English letters, "M", "S" and C", each in its own crowned, three-lobed surround, with "NICKEL SILVER" and "1854" below, all incuse.
label: Description
content: Maker is Middletown Silver Co. of Middletown, CT; circa 1899 until 1945 (established by former Middletown Plate Co. employees when that company was acquired by Insilco, circa 1898).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Middletown
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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 Laura Barney-Dreyfus in memory of Alice Pike Barney
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.366374
label: catalog number
content: 366374
label: accession number
content: 124063
objectType: label: Object Name
content: holder, ice bucket
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 5/8 in x 7 1/8 in x 6 3/8 in; 11.7475 cm x 18.0975 cm x 16.1925 cm