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DateEarly 1800s
Terms
- Foot Warmers
- Iron
- Tin
- Wood
Dimensions12.69 × 17.77 × 20.31 cm (5 × 7 × 8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Cummings E. Davis (1886)
Object numberH0327
DescriptionFoot warmer (or foot stove), wood frame enclosing tinplate box with hinged cover. Frame mortise and tenoned at corners. Four lathe-turned, baluster corner posts, inside corners of which cut away for box. Bail handle on frame. Two cross pieces on top of frame. Box flanged and soldered together. Strips of tinplate riveted above and below door opening. Edge of door rolled around wire, hinged on one side, simple wire loop latch on other. Top of box has three groups of punched holes between frame members. Pattern of punched holes on three sides of box and door: two concentric circles of large holes, diamonds of small holes in each corner and in center. Wood painted or stained black.