Andiron Patent Model
date: label: patent year
content: 1843
label: patent date
content: 1843-07-12
name: label: inventor
content: Smylie, Edward
notes: label: Description
content: Faceted pedestal-foot andiron from a full-size patent model (U.S. Patent No. 3,170) of a pair of andirons with three safety bars to prevent them from tipping or falling over, made by Edwin Smylie of New York, NY, and patented on July 12, 1843. Features a banded-ball finial on a conical shaft, spool-and-reel base and circular, scalloped foot on three pins. Four-part upright screws together and is secured at bottom with a nut. Two-part stepped billet bar attaches with threaded pin. No marks on object, but a darkened paper tag tied below the finial with red or purple wove ribbon is printed and handwritten with the patent information for the "Andiron." Portion of a second tag is tied around billet bar.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: associated place
content: United States: New York, New York City
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Smithsonian Institution
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.251423
label: catalog number
content: 251423
label: patent number
content: 3,170
label: accession number
content: 48890
objectType: label: Object Name
content: andiron
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (upright, front half of billet bar material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron, wrought (back half of billet bar material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 3/4 in x 5 3/4 in x 21 3/4 in; 50.165 cm x 14.605 cm x 55.245 cm