Model, Product
- Object Name:
- Model, Product
- Object ID:
- 2016.055.03
- Place of Origin:
- Chicago, IL
- Date:
- 1864
- Description:
- Patent model for "Improved Apparatus for Rendering Lard." Tin-plated sheet iron. Rectangular box with open top. Painted red on exterior, delineated to simulate brick. On one face, "LARD KETTLE" is lettered in black on gold. Unpainted semi-cylindrical trough inside, with perforated screen at one end; brass spigot on exterior of same end.
- Material:
- Metal
Tin
Brass - Dimensions:
- H-2.6 W-2.6 L-11.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Patented by Sylvester Marsh (1803-1884), 1864 (patent number 41,781). Model purchased by donor at Christie's auction, New York, Jan. 23, 1996. From the Cliff Petersen Collection of American patent models.
- People:
- Marsh, Sylvester (1803-1884)
- Subjects:
- Patents, Models, Inventions, Inventors
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