Child's Saucer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1893
label: engraved date
content: 1890-04-09
label: engraved date
content: 1893-04-09
notes: label: Description
content: Circular saucer decorated with brightcut daisy-like flowers on its rim; center of flat well is engraved "1890. April 9. 1893." in script. Single reed on rim underside. Bottom underside struck incuse with a conjoined "anchor-ended T & S" motif in rectangular outline, "STERLING" in oval outline, and "20". From child's cup and saucer set, 1991.0794.01-.02.
label: Description
content: Maker is A. F. Towle & Son Co.; founded by Anthony Francis Towle and his son Edward Bass Towle as A. F. Towle & Son in Newburyport, MA, 1873; name changed in 1882 and moved to Greenfield, MA in 1890. Company folded in 1900 and was purchased by George C. Lunt in 1902. Exact dates Towle & Son used the above mark not known.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Greenfield
topic: label: Subject
content: Beverages
label: Subject
content: Birthdays, General
label: Subject
content: Children
label: Subject
content: Food Culture
label: Subject
content: Gifts & Presents
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: 1991.0794.02
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0794.02
label: accession number
content: 1991.0794
objectType: label: Object Name
content: saucer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in; 1.27 cm x 11.43 cm