JAR, CONDIMENT
[Food Service Tools and Equipment]

Accession Number: 1958.108.3.2

Physical Description: Clear glass mustard jar with silver-plated convex cap, pin hinged to collar which is cemented to glass body. Bottle tapers at bottom. Paneled ring at shoulder, near middle, oval fluting in band near bottom. Engraved roses with radiating leaves and vines in series between paneled rings.

History of Object: Part of a caster set. This dinner caster, illustrated in the 1886 Meriden Britannia Co. catalog, offered to different bottle styles. No. 12, the concrete code, sold for $4.50 (per dozen?) separately and for $6.00 with base. No. 13, the concur code, sold for $5.25 separately and for $6.50 with base. The table caster with bottles if No. 67 (model #), Plain 5 (base type, second quality goods without trade mark), with No. 13 bottles. The donor maintained a Kansas address in 1958, according to the Accession book. It was 821 Spruceway, in Abilene. According to Accession Record book, this caster is supposed to have five bottles, there is no record to date of where the two missing bottles are.

Date: Between 1880 and 1890

Dimensions (in cm): L: 5 3/4" W: 1 3/4"

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Associations and Subjects

Origin, Place of: Meriden (Conn.)

Creators and Contributors

Meriden Britannina Co. (?)

Status: Cataloged

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