Award
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1950
label: date made
content: 1959
name: label: maker
content: L.G. Balfour Company
notes: label: Description
content: Two-handled, circular-footed, covered cup with imperial crown finial on a cylindrical black-plastic pedestal; one side of body is engraved "TO / BOBBY & LOIS BURNS / THE / AD ASTRA AWARD / JUBILEE - 1959 / Tupperware Home Parties Inc." Made as an inseparable unit, connected by a threaded rod that extends from finial to base and is secured with a hexagonal nut. Circular, silver-colored maker's label adhered to underside of base beneath nut. With display case, 2002.0274.01B.
label: Description
content: Maker is L. G. Balfour Company; business started by Lloyd Garfield Balfour in Attleboro, MA, in 1913 as a maker of fraternity and sorority jewelry and is now part of of Commemorative Brands, Inc., a subsidiary of American Achievement Corporation, headquartered in Austin, TX.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Attleboro
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
label: See more items in
content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Marjorie J. Burns
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0274.01A
label: accession number
content: 2002.0274
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0274.01A
objectType: label: Object Name
content: award
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (internal rod, nut material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (base material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 3/8 in x 13 1/2 in x 9 in; 49.2125 cm x 34.29 cm x 22.86 cm