Handle from a Bed Warmer
Handle from a Bed Warmer
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- Description
- Turned wooden handle from a patent model (U.S. Patent No. 146,577) of a bed warmer, made by Job Crockett of Portsmouth, OH, and patented on January 20, 1874. No marks.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- handle, bed warmer
- Object Type
- Patent Model
- patent date
- 1874-01-20
- place made
- United States: Ohio, Portsmouth
- Physical Description
- maple (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 1/8 in x 3/4 in; 18.0975 cm x 1.905 cm
- ID Number
- DL.251772
- catalog number
- 251772
- accession number
- 48890
- patent number
- 146577
- subject
- Heating
- Patent Models
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- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Health & Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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