Child's Cup
date: label: date made
content: 1850 - 1860
name: label: maker
content: Hyde & Goodrich
notes: label: Description
content: Seamed octagonal or panel-sided cup or mug with flared rim and slightly tapered sides, engraved on front "JHW" in foliate script. Hollow broken-scroll handle with flat thumbrest; applied triple-reeded rim molding and foot ring; and flat bottom set in. Bottom underside struck once "HYDE & GOODRICH" in raised serif letters in a rectangle.
label: Description
content: Retailed by Hyde & Goodrich of New Orleans, LA; in business, 1816-1866. Possibly made by their firm or another firm in New Orleans, or imported, probably from New York. The handle is identical to ones seen on 1850s New York silver, and Hyde & Goodrich were selling New York pieces at that time.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: place retailed
content: United States: Louisiana, New Orleans
topic: label: Subject
content: Children
label: Subject
content: Food Culture
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Donald Beggs
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0252.4
label: accession number
content: 1988.0252
label: catalog number
content: 1988.252.4
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0252.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mug
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 3 7/8 in x 2 7/8 in; 7.62 cm x 9.8425 cm x 7.3025 cm