Stamp Box
date: label: date made
content: 1900
name: label: maker
content: Gorham Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Rectangular stamp box with hinged lid featuring a plain, raised center framed by applied gadrooning and corner shells; additional gadrooning at top and bottom edges of box. Gold washed interior is divided into two equal compartments with curved bottom plate. Lid inside is struck incuse "STERLING" in sans serif letters. Underside of bottom plate struck incuse with Gorham trademark (right-facing lion passant in clipped-corner square, anchor in shield, and gothic or Old English "G" in clipped-corner square), "STERLING" in sans serif letters, "B862" in roman letters, and a date mark of a bell.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
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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 Lucinda de Leftwich Templin, Ph.D., in memory of Ella Rice Templin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.1855
label: catalog number
content: 60.1855
label: accession number
content: 200122
objectType: label: Object Name
content: box, stamp
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (interior wash material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 1 3/8 in x 2 1/8 in; 2.2225 cm x 3.4925 cm x 5.3975 cm