Glass Christmas Ornament
Glass Christmas Ornament
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- Description
- Molded glass holiday or Christmas ornament. Mirrored silver glass conical form, rounded on top and pointed towards bottom. Painted with red and green stripes around top. Metal cap with bent metal holder and thin bent wire attached. Cap is stamped with country of origin but illegible. In 1937, a tariff decision (no. 54387) reversed earlier decisions regarding the marking of ornaments with their country of origin, established in the 1890 MicKinley Tariff Act and the Smoot-Havley Tariff Act of 1930. The ornament itself now had to be marked with with its country of origin by stamping it into the cap or by way of tag or sticker.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- ornament, christmas tree
- Object Type
- ornaments
- Other Terms
- Ornament; Decorations
- date made
- after 1937
- place made
- Germany
- United States
- place used
- United States: District of Columbia, Washington
- Physical Description
- red (overall color)
- silver (overall color)
- glass (overall material)
- metal (hanger material)
- cone (ornament shape)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 1/8 in x 1 3/8 in; 7.9375 cm x 3.4925 cm
- ID Number
- DL.298065.0382
- catalog number
- 298065.0382
- accession number
- 298065
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey L. Jones
- subject
- Christmas
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- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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