Haystack measure; quart size. Conical or ovoid body with molded neck, midbody, and base bands; circular, everted rim with flared and beaded lip. Tapered, D- or ear-shaped handle has an arched and tongued thumbrest; upper scrolled terminal with stepped oval attachment below neck; flat lower terminal attached at midband. Front of body is stamped "1 QUART" in incuse serif letters. Four verification marks on rim exterior, including a crowned Hibernian harp between "VR" over "56[?]" and "110 / SE". Touchmark of Joseph Austen & Son on bottom outside.
Maker is Joseph Austen & Son, Cork, Ireland; circa 1823-1846 (previous working dates, circa 1828-1833).
Haystack measure; half gill or half noggin size. Conical or ovoid body with molded neck, midbody, and base bands; circular, everted rim with flared and beaded lip. Tapered, D- or ear-shaped handle has an arched and tongued thumbrest; upper scrolled terminal with stepped oval attachment below neck; flat lower terminal attached at midband. Touchmark of Joseph Austen & Son on bottom outside.
Maker is Joseph Austen & Son, Cork, Ireland; circa 1823-1846 (previous working dates, circa 1828-1833).
Turnip-form teakettle with crooked gooseneck spout and cast-in, clipped-corner ears on its high, rounded shoulder for the arched, strap bail handle, rectangular in section; three conical feet. Low-domed, molded cover has a small, double-scrolled strip of sheet iron nailed in place where a cast-in loop handle was originally. Both pieces are hollow cast: cover has a single gate mark on outside; kettle has horizontal and vertical seams on body and spout with single gate mark on bottom exterior. No additional marks.
Single-reeded plate with shallow flat well scored once near booge; no foot ring. Underside of well struck twice with touchmark of Ebenezer Southmayd, consisting of a three-masted sailing ship above the raised roman letters "ES"; "Jn Buell" faintly inscribed in script on underside of rim to left of marks.
Maker is Ebenezer Southmayd (1775-1831); working in Middletown, CT, ca. 1797-1802, and Castleton, VT, ca. 1802-1831.
Original leather case for “One-armed man’s” knife (1986.531.225A) and accompanying dinner knife (1986.531.225B). Red leather exterior with red velvet-lined interior. Brass clasp at center front. Heavily worn, scratched. Pieces braking/broken off of exterior. Debris and dust on interior. No mark.
Blades of accompanying knife are stamped: “W[crown]R/RODGERS CUTLERS/TO THEIR MAJESTIES”; partially worn away.
Maker is Rodgers Cutlers, Sheffield, England, founded circa 1724. From 1971-1977 the firm operated under the name Rodgers-Wostenholm, and in 1977 Imperial of Providence, Rhode Island purchased the company.
Straight tapered mug with molded rim and base having a concave outside bottom and flat inside bottom; pint size. Plain, hollow, D-section, S-curve handle tapers to an applied scrolled heart terminal on low-domed oval attachment. Vertical seam of plain body at center under handle. Struck incuse "57" above "DIXON & SON" in serif letters on outside bottom.
Part of a patent model (U.S. Patent No. 8,173X) of a roasting jack, made by Ezra Whitman of Winthrop, ME, and patented on April 28, 1834. No marks on object, but a darkened paper tag tied with a red or purple (faded) wove ribbon is printed and handwritten (in ink) with the patent information for the "Roasting-Jack". Based on the patent drawing, several parts are missing from this model.
Patentee is believed to be Ezra Whitman, Jr. (b. 1812), son of clockmaker Ezra Whitman (1769-1851) and brother of Luther Whitman (b. 1802) who founded Whitman Agricultural Works in Winthrop, ME, where this roasting jack was probably produced.
Two-handled, covered, compressed globular bowl with squat, plain, incurved neck topped by a heavy, cast floral rim on four cast paw feet. Body has chased and repousse lobes alternating in width and scrollwork decoration; matching, domed cover with flared edge has a cast circular floral knob. Pointed strap handles cast in two parts, both with floral decoration on outside and smooth inside. Bowl and cover have gold washed interiors. Bottom underside struck with an incuse serif "R" at center and incised "FF" in script (covered by accession number). Part of a four-piece coffee and tea service, DL*387944A-D.
Covered, compressed globular cream pot with short, bellied spout and squat, plain, incurved neck topped by a heavy, cast floral rim; four cast paw feet. Body has chased and repousse lobes alternating in width and scrollwork decoration; matching, domed cover with flared edge has cast circular floral knob. Pointed strap handle cast in two parts, both with floral decoration on outside and smooth inside. Cover and pot are gold washed inside. Body open at spout. Bottom underside struck with an incuse serif "R" at center and incised "N\o H" and "Wims(?)" in script. Part of a four-piece coffee and tea service, DL*387944A-D.
Handleless seamed cylindrical cup with straight tapered sides, applied beaded rim and triple-reeded, molded foot ring; flat bottom set in. Engraved on exterior with monogram "JA" in foliate script. Bottom underside struck once below centerpoint "GELSTON" in raised serif letters inside a rectangle and with two pseudo-hallmarks, the profile head of a man facing right and a spreadwing eagle, its body facing left and head facing right, both in ovals.
Maker is Hugh Gelston (1794-1873); worked in Boston, MA, and Baltimore, MD, in partnerships and alone, 1816-circa 1833.
Bracket-handled, cylindrical metric measure with molded rim and base, hooked rectangular thumb piece, and flat extension burnt to the rimless domed lid; five-knuckle hinge. Face of handle stamped "LITRE" sideways in incuse serif letters; wedge extension, front edge of lid, neck, and top of inside rim are covered with verification marks, including small raised serif letters, larger serif letters in circles, and fleurs-de-lis; top and bottom of front edge lid have larger circular verification stamps. Flat bottom struck once with arched rectangular touchmark of "BOURDILLON. / A ANGERS". One of an assembled set of five metric measures, DL*67.0321-.0325.
Plain, compressed globular coffeepot with equal-height, incurved neck and pedestal base and creased, tapered shoulder and underbelly. Wide-rimmed, bell-domed, hinged lid is topped by wood button knop. Black-japanned, spurred, S- and C-curve handle is pinned into leafy spiral sockets. S-scroll spout has angled D-shaped lip, flat face and rounded belly. Underside of flat bottom is struck "[J.] DANFO[RTH]" in rectangle and "N\o. 15" in sawtooth rectangle, both in roman letters.
Maker is Josiah Danforth (1803-1872) of Middletown, CT; working 1821-circa 1843.
Covered cooking pot on three, semicircular feet with a flared lip, bulbous body and forged bail handle looped around triangular lugs or ears. Pot is hollow cast with four fillets, one around rim and three around body, the lowest one is a horizontal seam; two vertical seams on upper half, circular sprue mark on bottom exterior and cast-in mark of "CARRON" in raised serif letters on side. Domed cover with oval wire loop handle has two, raised, concentric circles or fillets with eight, five-pointed stars in between; single gate mark on underside.
Maker is Carron Co., founded by John Roebuck, Samuel Garbett, William Cadell in 1759 along the Carron River in Falkirk, Scotland.
Turnip-form, tilting teakettle with crooked gooseneck spout, three D-section feet and three cast-in square ears, two at sides for the arched, forged wire bail handle and one at front bolted with a flat, scrolled-top lever. Low-domed, molded cover has a cast-in wire loop handle and "W W" in raised serif letters. Both pieces are hollow cast: cover has gate mark on top; kettle has horizontal and vertical seams on body and spout with single gate mark on bottom exterior. Lever is stamped incuse "AB[?] (arched)" in serif letters and "2".
Lidless bulbous or bellied measure with crowned "GR IV" "IMPERIAL" seal applied on front; half gill size. Applied rim with incised line below and cast circular base with vertical foot ring; faint line partially visible at seam. Molded D- or ear-shaped strap handle. No other marks.
This type of measure is associated with Sheffield, c. 1825-1835, made shortly after the adoption of the Imperial Standard in 1824.
Uncrested tappit hen measure with embryo shell thumb piece; imperial gill size. Flat-domed lid has one raised-bead circle on exterior and two on interior. Body has a molded rim and plain base with two lines around rim, three below shoulder, and four at base. S-scroll handle with stepped thumbrest and pointed terminal; cylindrical strut. Rim exterior with two crowned verification marks, including a crowned George IV Edinburgh mark. Illegible scratched inscription below handle. Flat bottom with circular pot touch of Robert Whyte of Edinburgh.
Maker is Robert Whyte of Edinburgh, Scotland, working 1804-1854. The George IV mark indicates date made is pre-1830.
Patent model of a cooking stove marked with three rectangular brass tags embossed "WILSONS PATENT" in roman letters, made by James Wilson of New York, NY, and patented on August 15, 1837. Features a large firebox with hearth next to two vertically stacked ovens with adjustable racks below four small rectangular holes for cooking vessels. No other marks on object; old darkened paper tag tied on with purple wove ribbon is printed and handwritten with patent information and object numbers.
Ladle having a raised, fluted, horizontal oval bowl with two pouring spouts and small boss bottom attached to a twisted baleen or whalebone handle. Silver portion of handle consists of a long, tightly twisted shaft, square in section, and a conical socket for the baleen, which is secured with a silver pin. Shaft is struck with three marks, one on front is part of an insect countermark while two on back are the profile head of Minerva, facing right, with small "1" at top right in a clipped-corner surround and the maker's diamond-shaped mark. Two stamps on one spout include a partial grasshopper countermark on top and another Minerva head on underside.
Minerva guarantee mark for .950 silver, used from 1838 to present; complex bigornes (or countermarks depicting insects, always stamped on opposite side from guarantee) also adopted in 1838.