Teakettle
date: label: date patented
content: 1866-12-18
label: date made
content: ca 1870
label: patent date
content: 1866-12-18
notes: label: Description
content: Pit-bottom teakettle with bellied gooseneck spout and cast-in arched ears above its high, rounded shoulder for the mushroom-shaped strap bail handle, concave in section; no feet. Removable, pivoting, double-stepped lid swings on bearing next to back ear. Both pieces are hollow cast: body has a pronounced horizontal seam that extends to top of spout and a single gate mark and raised "8" on bottom exterior; cover bordered by "B & S. 272 PEARL ST.N.Y." and "PATENTED DEC.18.1866", both cast in raised serif letters.
label: Description
content: "B & S." appears to stand for Benham & Stoutenborough, a housewares merchant and manufacturer at 272 Pearl Street, run by Darius Benham and Xenophon Stoutenborough. William Hailes of Albany, NY, received U.S. Patent No. 60,508 for his "mode of attaching covers to kettles, boilers, stoves, etc." on December 18, 1866.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Patented
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Estate of John Paul Remensnyder
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0090.17
label: accession number
content: 1982.0090
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0090.17
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teakettle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, cast (kettle, lid material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron, wrought (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/4 in x 12 in x 8 5/8 in; 20.955 cm x 30.48 cm x 21.9075 cm