Bread Basket
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- Description
- Handleless, circular, pierced bowl with boss bottom, made as one piece. Flared rim with folded edge has an overlapping swag design, while sides feature continuous latticework with reeding above and below. Bottom underside stamped with four equidistant incuse marks: trademark "W" in a circle flanked by three-dash flourishes, "STERLING", "6558" and "GALT & BRO.", all in sans serif letters; "1235-" faintly scratched directly above "6558".
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- basket
- date made
- ca 1900
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, North Attleboro
- place retailed
- United States: District of Columbia, Washington
- place used
- United States: Wisconsin, Menomonie
- United States: Minnesota, Lake Park
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 7/8 in x 7 1/8 in; 4.7625 cm x 18.0975 cm
- ID Number
- DL.66.0551
- catalog number
- 66.0551
- accession number
- 265238
- Credit Line
- Gift of John H. Crea
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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