Beaker
date: label: date made
content: 1837-1846
notes: label: Description
content: Handleless seamed cylindrical cup with straight tapered sides and applied molded rim and foot ring, both double reeded; flat bottom set in. Engraved in script on exterior "William C.P. Breckinridge / from his Grandmother / SBP". Bottom underside struck once with a shield-body, spreadwing eagle, head facing left, in a square above H. M\c/KEEN" in raised serif letters inside a sawtooth rectangle.
label: Description
content: Maker is Henry McKeen of Philadelphia, PA; working, 1823-1850.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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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 Miss Sophonisba P. Breckinridge
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.383994
label: catalog number
content: 383994
label: accession number
content: 172945
objectType: label: Object Name
content: beaker
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/8 in x 3 in; 8.5725 cm x 7.62 cm