Foot Warmer
Foot Warmer
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- Description
- Perforated tin box with drawn-wire bail handle hooked through loops on top; one side is a wire-rimmed hinged door with bent wire pull. Box top has three bands of punched circles, while sides feature an 8-segment circle with semicircles at the corners. No marks. No brazier or pan for heat source.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- warmer, foot
- date made
- 1820 - 1850
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts
- place used
- United States: Massachusetts, Arlington
- Physical Description
- iron (overall material)
- tin (overall material)
- iron wire (handles material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5 3/8 in x 7 5/8 in x 8 3/4 in; 13.6525 cm x 19.3675 cm x 22.225 cm
- ID Number
- DL.392937
- catalog number
- 392937
- accession number
- 206516
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Scott Adams
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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