Beaker
Beaker
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- Description
- Handleless seamed cylindrical cup with straight tapered sides and applied molded rim and foot ring; flat bottom set in. Engraved on exterior "E Logan" in script. Bottom underside struck once "C.W. CHATTERTON" in raised serif letter in a rectangle and "SPRINGFIELD ILL." in incuse serif letters.
- Maker is Charles W. Chatterton (1815-1862), born in New York, worked in Springfield, 1838-1860, and then moved to Kansas as an Indian Agent.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- beaker
- date made
- 1838-1860
- place made
- United States: Illinois, Springfield
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 3/8 in x 2 7/8 in; 8.5725 cm x 7.3025 cm
- ID Number
- DL.59.0599
- catalog number
- 59.0599
- accession number
- 219034
- Credit Line
- Gift of Roger Pryor Templin
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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