Coffee Biggin
date: label: date made
content: 1864
label: date presented
content: 1864-11
notes: label: Description
content: Three-part cylindrical drip coffee maker engraved in script across lower section above spigot "Presented to Ex-Foreman, / Isaac Hale Jr. / By / Neptune Fire Association No. 8 / on the twelfth anniversary of his / Marriage / Nov 1864." Consists of a smaller upper section with bell-domed cover topped by a cast pheasant finial that has a perforated bottom to hold the coffee grounds; a larger lower section with four, equidistant, vertical, flat bands and a spigot with fleur-de-lis handle for holding and serving the coffee; and a piercework-decorated base on four, scrolled tab feet for containing a spirit burner. All three sections friction fit together. Folded seams and riveted construction. Conical-handled tamper stored inside upper section. Finial stamped incuse "4" inside cover; no other marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Newburyport
label: place used
content: United States: Massachusetts, Newburyport
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Kenneth E. Jewett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.257491.0008
label: catalog number
content: 257491.0008
label: accession number
content: 257491
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coffee maker
label: Other Terms
content: Urn, Coffee; 41Cc, Sullivan, Michael D
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, white (finial; spigot material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 5/8 in x 9 3/8 in x 10 in; 52.3875 cm x 23.8125 cm x 25.4 cm