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Date1820-1840
Terms
- Foot Warmers
- Steel
- Maple
- New England
Dimensions17.77 × 25.38 × 25.38 cm (7 × 10 × 10 in.)
Credit LineGift of Cummings E. Davis (1886)
Object numberH2102
DescriptionFoot warmer. Tinned steel, pierced. Wood frame enclosing tinplate box with hinged door. Two cross peices on top of frame, and one on bottom. Bail handle on top of box (not frame). Sides and door of box have pattern of punched holes: circle divided into six sections, with oval in each section. On top of box: large circle divided into six sections, with three ovals and pointed hole in each. Wood apparently unfinished. Tolman gives date 1796 (date of what unsure), but possibly also 1794. Zebulun Spalding b. 1749, d. 1803. There is some confusion on whether this footwarmer is, indeed, #203 in catalogue--no way of knowing for sure (see argument in file). This footwarmer differs from others in our collection in that it is larger, the handle is on the box (not the frame), the design of punched holes is not made to work around frame, and the box is very loose in frame. Possibly not originally intended to be in this, or any, frame.
Object number: H0175