CASTER
[Food Service Tools and Equipment]

Accession Number: 1958.108.3.1

Physical Description: Table caster. Revolving base, five-bottle style. Bell base, convex, with plain banding. Five-hole circular pan with beveled side and small chased border at bottom of rosettes with radiating scrolls in series. Triangular handle with applied beading at shoulders. Rectangular crest with openwork floral central oval brace set at sharp angle between uprights of handle with fishbone and scroll elements; threaded tenon screws hold handle to central shaft.

History of Object: 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: 16" Diam: 7 1/4"

Marks/Inscriptions: [stamped on underside of base] 67 //

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Associations and Subjects

Origin, Place of: Meriden (Conn.)

Creators and Contributors

Meriden Britannina Co. (?)

Status: Cataloged

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