Bottle, Nursing
- Object Name:
- Bottle, Nursing
- Object ID:
- 1959.075(4)
- Date:
- circa 1856
- Description:
- Nursing Bottle. Clear, colorless blown and molded glass; half pint. Flattened ovoid body with concentric, flat, vertical arched bands on two sides. Cast Britannia cap with cylindrical milk glass nipple on top. Vertical mold seam lines; Smooth pontil mark on bottom. "59-75(4) / Mrs. Mary Willis / Nursing bottle / formerly belonging / to Anna White / (Fernald) b. 1856" written in ink on adhesive label attached to front. Adhesive paper label two lines handwritten in red ink: "11-5-59 / Willis"
- Material:
- Glass
- Dimensions:
- H-6.3 W-3.75 D-1.9 inches
- Provenance:
- Used by Mary Anna White (1856-1939), daughter of Curtis White, of Concord, NH. Anna married Josiah E. Fernald. Bottle donated by her daughter, Mary Fernald Willis.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Mary F. Willis
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