James L. Plimpton Ice Skate
date: label: date made
content: 1865
name: label: maker
content: Plimpton, James
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Ice skate with a square toed wooden foot plate, a brass heel protector with a missing leather strap at the heel and a leather strap over the toe. There is one blade and two small iron blades on the back of the skate and are cast in the form of swans. "Patented 1/6/1865 [/] Plimpton" is engraved on the blade.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: name of sport
content: Ice Skating
label: level of sport
content: recreational
label: web subject
content: Sports
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Miss Elizabeth W. Plimpton
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CL.64.1045
label: accession number
content: 270696
label: catalog number
content: 64.1045
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Skate, Ice
label: Object Name
content: ice skate
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 3 in x 9 in; 7.62 cm x 7.62 cm x 22.86 cm