Toothbrush
date: label: date made
content: 1948 or later
name: label: maker
content: Towle Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: "French Provincial" pattern toothbrush with cupped or concave, scroll-bordered, wavy handle featuring an X in four-petal motif at center of its flared and rounded tip. Removable head has five rows of tufts of bristles attached to a light-blue plastic base. Tuft side of handle is stamped with a right-facing lion rampant inside a script letter "T" next to "TOWLE" and "STERLING" and "French Provincial", all raised. Back of head has "JO-REN" spelled vertically between bullseyes with "PAT." at heel, all raised.
label: Description
content: Maker is Towle Manufacturing Co. (now Towle Silversmiths) of Newburyport, MA; 1882-present. "French Provincial" introduced in 1948. Nothing further known about "JO-REN" and patent could not be found; needs further research.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Newburyport
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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: 1985.0727.01
label: accession number
content: 1985.0727
label: catalog number
content: 1985.727.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Toothbrush
label: Object Name
content: toothbrush
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: nylon (bristles material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (brush base material)