Heating Stove Patent Model
date: label: Date made
content: 1835-05-16
label: patent date
content: 1835-05-16
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model (U.S. Patent No. X8,827) of a stove for heating rooms, made by Charles W. Peckham of New Haven, CT, and patented on May 16, 1835. Consists of a vertical rectangular firebox atop a square ash pit with drawer on four, cast, floral-patterned feet; flat, square cover with opening is topped by a rectangular box with smoke pipe. Firebox is mounted backwards. Wove tapes are tied around ash pit and box on cover; another length of tape is secured to a loose piece of unknown purpose stored inside firebox. No marks on object, but two old torn and darkened paper tags tied to purple wove ribbon and string are printed and handwritten with patent information and object numbers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, New Haven
setName: label: See more items in
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: DL.251493
label: catalog number
content: 251493
label: accession number
content: 48890
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stove, model
label: Object Name
content: stove, heating
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (ash drawer handle, feet material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (firebox lining material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/2 in x 5 1/4 in x 4 7/8 in; 26.67 cm x 13.335 cm x 12.3825 cm