Salt Shaker
date: label: date made
content: 1892 - ca 1936
notes: label: Description
content: Pear-shaped shaker with overall cast-relief decoration of flowers and foliage. Dome- or bell-top, pierced removable cap with spire finial and high collar. Underside of slightly rounded bottom is engraved ""MHS"" in conjoined foliate script and struck with several incuse marks, "THE JAS. R. ARMIGER / CO." flanked by "925" and "1000" with a small portion of a geometric band below. One of a pair, 1978.0077.01-.02; patterns are different and .01 has slightly larger holes.
label: Description
content: Maker is James R. Armiger Co., of Baltimore, MD; in business, 1892-circa 1936.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0077.01
label: accession number
content: 1978.0077
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0077.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: shaker, salt
label: Object Type
content: Shaker
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: silverplate (collar material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in; 8.89 cm x 3.81 cm