Toast Rack

Description:

Six-slice toast rack with seven, equal-height, semicircular looped wire dividers attached to a reeded rectangular frame with incurved ends and central, lengthwise crosspiece; four cast shell feet have three plumes or Prince of Wales' feathers motif at knees. Center divider is topped by a cast C and S scroll, trapezoidal handle. Frame underside is struck "A. E. WARNER" in raised roman letters in a scalloped rectangle and with a raised "11" in a clipped-corner surround.

Date Made: 1830 - 1860

Maker: Warner, Andrew Ellicott

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: Maryland, BaltimorePlace Used: United States: Maryland, BaltimoreUnited States: District of Columbia, Washington

See more items in: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life, Domestic Furnishings

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Credit Line: Bequest of Elsie Howland Quinby in memory of Mrs. Duncan Cameron (through Woodson P. Houghton, Dr. Richard H. Howland, and Donald Lewis Wright)

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 1988.0762.01Accession Number: 1988.0762Catalog Number: 1988.0762.01

Object Name: rack, toast

Physical Description: silver (overall material)Measurements: overall: 7 1/4 in x 6 3/8 in x 5 1/4 in; 18.415 cm x 16.1925 cm x 13.335 cm

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b0-ebe0-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_324434

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