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- Description
- Two-handled, circular-footed, covered cup with imperial crown finial on a cylindrical black-plastic pedestal; one side of body is engraved "TO / BOBBY & LOIS BURNS / THE / AD ASTRA AWARD / JUBILEE - 1959 / Tupperware Home Parties Inc." Made as an inseparable unit, connected by a threaded rod that extends from finial to base and is secured with a hexagonal nut. Circular, silver-colored maker's label adhered to underside of base beneath nut. With display case, 2002.0274.01B.
- Maker is L. G. Balfour Company; business started by Lloyd Garfield Balfour in Attleboro, MA, in 1913 as a maker of fraternity and sorority jewelry and is now part of of Commemorative Brands, Inc., a subsidiary of American Achievement Corporation, headquartered in Austin, TX.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- award
- Date made
- ca 1950
- date made
- 1959
- maker
- L.G. Balfour Company
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Attleboro
- Physical Description
- silver plate (overall material)
- metal (internal rod, nut material)
- plastic (base material)
- Measurements
- overall: 19 3/8 in x 13 1/2 in x 9 in; 49.2125 cm x 34.29 cm x 22.86 cm
- ID Number
- 2002.0274.01A
- accession number
- 2002.0274
- catalog number
- 2002.0274.01A
- Credit Line
- Gift of Marjorie J. Burns
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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