Cooking Stove Patent Model
date: label: Date made
content: 1837-08-15
label: patent date
content: 1837-08-15
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model of a cooking stove marked with three rectangular brass tags embossed "WILSONS PATENT" in roman letters, made by James Wilson of New York, NY, and patented on August 15, 1837. Features a large firebox with hearth next to two vertically stacked ovens with adjustable racks below four small rectangular holes for cooking vessels. No other marks on object; old darkened paper tag tied on with purple wove ribbon is printed and handwritten with patent information and object numbers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
label: See more items in
content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.251447
label: catalog number
content: 251447
label: accession number
content: 48890
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stove, cooking
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: mahogany (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (maker's tags material)
label: Physical Description
content: copper (firebox door; some hardware details material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, white (smoke pipe collar; oven racks, feet material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (rods supporting case material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 7 1/8 in x 4 in; 12.7 cm x 18.0975 cm x 10.16 cm