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- Date
- 1900 – 1935
- Material
- metal; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0063
- Description
- Deep, oval teakettle win flat base, straight sides which, at top, terminate in ridged band and slope gently to oval rim opening into which brass knobbed copper lid fits. Two vertical, brass brackets are screwed into pot and hold horizontal wooden handle, long, curved spout on end of kettle contain…
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- Title
- Teakettle
- Date
- 1900 – 1935
- Material
- metal; wood
- Dimensions
- 24.5 x 15.0 x 28.7 cm
- Description
- Deep, oval teakettle win flat base, straight sides which, at top, terminate in ridged band and slope gently to oval rim opening into which brass knobbed copper lid fits. Two vertical, brass brackets are screwed into pot and hold horizontal wooden handle, long, curved spout on end of kettle contains ridge and facet detail.
- Subject
- households
- kitchen
- decorative
- Edith Morse Robb
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0063
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- Date
- 1900 – 1935
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0065
- Description
- Flat based, deep, round kettle which gradually widens from base to shoulder where it slopes up and inward to rim into which circular, knobbed copper lid sits. One piece copper handle riveted to top of pot (does not swivel). Affixed, curved spout. Stamp to left of spout "Made in England". Base stamp…
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- Title
- Teakettle
- Date
- 1900 – 1935
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 24.0 x 17.0 x 25.0 cm
- Description
- Flat based, deep, round kettle which gradually widens from base to shoulder where it slopes up and inward to rim into which circular, knobbed copper lid sits. One piece copper handle riveted to top of pot (does not swivel). Affixed, curved spout. Stamp to left of spout "Made in England". Base stamped with triangle containing a rosette and a "T". Brass seen through copper in some areas.
- Subject
- households
- kitchen
- decorative
- Edith Morse Robb
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0065
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- Date
- 1900 – 1935
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0066
- Description
- Flat based teakettle with sharp ridge 3.2 cm. up from base. From ridge, kettle walls rise to shoulder indentation terminating in vertical rim over which domed lid with double scrolled handle rests, curved spout. Two vertical cooper brackets hold arched, flat, swivel handle stamped on top "2 LITRE".…
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- Title
- Teakettle
- Date
- 1900 – 1935
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 21.5 x 16.5 x 21.0 cm
- Description
- Flat based teakettle with sharp ridge 3.2 cm. up from base. From ridge, kettle walls rise to shoulder indentation terminating in vertical rim over which domed lid with double scrolled handle rests, curved spout. Two vertical cooper brackets hold arched, flat, swivel handle stamped on top "2 LITRE". Faint circle ridges seen on centre bottom, metal lined pot.
- Subject
- households
- kitchen
- Edith Morse Robb
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0066
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Supplies Netmaking Collection
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.45.0024%20a-n
- Date
- 1900 – 1935
- Material
- wood; metal; ivory
- Catalogue Number
- 104.45.0024 a-n
- Description
- A collection of netmaking supplies including seven shuttles, three mesh gauges, an awl, a large needle, two bobbins ? , and three mysterious sticks. (a) shuttle (24.6 x .7 x 5.1) hand carved, wooden, flat board with pointed end, and deep arch carved in other end, cut out window about half its len…
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- Title
- Supplies Netmaking Collection
- Date
- 1900 – 1935
- Material
- wood; metal; ivory
- Description
- A collection of netmaking supplies including seven shuttles, three mesh gauges, an awl, a large needle, two bobbins ? , and three mysterious sticks. (a) shuttle (24.6 x .7 x 5.1) hand carved, wooden, flat board with pointed end, and deep arch carved in other end, cut out window about half its length at pointed end has long carved spike up the middle nearly the length of the opening. Note: wood split through at point.( b) shuttle (25.7 x .5 x 2.0) as (a) but narrower and finer. Hard twist white cord wound from bottom arch up around spindle and back, then up other side. Note: warped along length. (c) shuttle (19.4 x .5 x 2.9) as (a) but smaller and harder wood with brown speckling. (d) shuttle (17.7 x .7 x 2.7) as (a) but hardwood, maple? and more carefully carved and smoothed. (e) shuttle (17.7 x .7 x 2.5) as (d) but squared at edges. Tightly twisted cord wrapped around as in (b). (f) shuttle (13.9 x .9 x 3.6) carved, flat piece of softwood, rectangular in shape with deep arches cut from each end, very roughly shaped. (g) shuttle (22.8 x .3 x 1.8) as (a) but much more streamlined. Arch at end, and window containing spindle are squared, one side has ink drawing of fishing boat and sailboat on the water and writing, "Mendon, M.M. Brooks, Paris "88" at the tip barely decipherable. "M Brooks ? Paris '88'".( h) mesh gauges (24.0 x 1.3 diam) long, smooth dowel which has been roughly rounded at each end. (hh) mesh gauge (18.0 x 1.1 diam) as (h) but shorter and smoother at ends. (i) mesh stick (20.0 x .1 x 1.3) flat, thin, extremely flexible piece of black metal with rounded ends which have been dipped in a rubber like material. (j,jj) odd sticks (10.4 x .4 x 5.6) 2 flat pieces of ivory with a .6 diam. hole drilled through at each end. (k) another odd stick (10.4 x .2 x 1.4) black plastic? stick as (j) but with two .8 cm holes, one above the other, at the ends. (l) (10.5 x .4 x .5) needle, large, steel, three cornered needle with rectangular eye set into groove at end. Note: rusting. (m) awl (13.8 x 2.5 diam) shaped wooden handle with 3.7 cm needle at end, handle teardrop shaped, nipping in to a waist at the end, then out again, flaring to a flat knob. Scribed around with double lines at each end. Cone shaped brass collar is crimped around sharp steel needle. (n,nn) bobbins (6.5 x .2 x 6.5) two thin wooden boards carved into a square with the sides curving inward slightly. Charred into the top of each is a series of squiggle lines, East-Asian writing? surrounded by a curved rectangle.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.45.0024 a-n
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- Date
- 1900 – 1940
- Material
- wood; hair, sheep; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 102.03.0073
- Description
- A small oval footstool, floral needlepoint design including rose at centre and morning glories at extremes, and various other pale yellow flowers in bunches and perhaps lavender morning glories. Legs are lathe turned and incised and set into sectioned plank base with glue.
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- Title
- Footstool
- Date
- 1900 – 1940
- Material
- wood; hair, sheep; fibre
- Dimensions
- 18.5 x 21.0 x 30.0 cm
- Description
- A small oval footstool, floral needlepoint design including rose at centre and morning glories at extremes, and various other pale yellow flowers in bunches and perhaps lavender morning glories. Legs are lathe turned and incised and set into sectioned plank base with glue.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.03.0073
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- Date
- 1900 – 1930
- Material
- wood; metal; hair, sheep
- Catalogue Number
- 102.03.0077
- Description
- A low rectangular footstool with its legs an extension of its two side panels, bowed in slightly at legs in a approximation of empire design. Two end panels mortised into side-leg panels. Wood platform held to leg support by screws. "C-8" in circle stamped on underneath platform. Upholstery web tac…
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- Title
- Footstool
- Date
- 1900 – 1930
- Material
- wood; metal; hair, sheep
- Dimensions
- 21.0 x 22.8 x 35.5 cm
- Description
- A low rectangular footstool with its legs an extension of its two side panels, bowed in slightly at legs in a approximation of empire design. Two end panels mortised into side-leg panels. Wood platform held to leg support by screws. "C-8" in circle stamped on underneath platform. Upholstery web tacked into platform. Upper surface is cross-stitched in a pink flower and blue wave pattern alternating, separated by pale gold bands with brown zigzags on them.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.03.0077
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Tea Service Accessory, Doll
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- Date
- 1900 – 1920
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 108.05.0061 a-t
- Description
- Set consists of a: a coffee or tea pot, b: a lidded, two handled sugar bowlc: a creamer (6.5 cm x 6.5 cm)d-i: 6 saucers (1.0 cm x 5.0 cm)j-o: 6 unhandled cups (2.4 cm x 3.0 cm)p-t: 5 tiny spoons (0.3 cm x 5.0 cm)The pot, creamer and sugar bowl are die cast and textured on exterior, with smooth inte…
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- Title
- Tea Service Accessory, Doll
- Date
- 1900 – 1920
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 10.3 x 6.6 x 11.9 cm
- Description
- Set consists of a: a coffee or tea pot, b: a lidded, two handled sugar bowlc: a creamer (6.5 cm x 6.5 cm)d-i: 6 saucers (1.0 cm x 5.0 cm)j-o: 6 unhandled cups (2.4 cm x 3.0 cm)p-t: 5 tiny spoons (0.3 cm x 5.0 cm)The pot, creamer and sugar bowl are die cast and textured on exterior, with smooth interiors. All have leaf motif handles and feet, small plates and cups plain, ridged design and tiny spoons are die cast and have textured handles.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 108.05.0061 a-t
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- Date
- 1900 – 1920
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 105.06.0039 a-g
- Description
- (a) tray in form of palmate lily leaf, circular with opposite edges curled inward and other axis attached to upright, tall curved handle resembling two plant stems intertwining. Handle attached by rivets to tray. Leaf vein contours on tray surface die stamped to show design on tray surface and base…
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- Title
- Inkstand
- Date
- 1900 – 1920
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 17.5 x 24.5 x 29.9 cm
- Description
- (a) tray in form of palmate lily leaf, circular with opposite edges curled inward and other axis attached to upright, tall curved handle resembling two plant stems intertwining. Handle attached by rivets to tray. Leaf vein contours on tray surface die stamped to show design on tray surface and base. (b) water jar is, 4.3 height, 8.1 long, 6.1 wide, flat bottomed with shallow, dome with two small holes for filling, narrow pouring spout, affixed curved handle.(c-g) 5 small, shallow dishes, 2.0 height, 7.6 diameter, same leaf contour design as tray but having flared, wavy rim shape.
- Subject
- households
- office
- hobbies
- Edith Morse Robb
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 105.06.0039 a-g
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- Date
- 1900 – 1930
- Material
- metal; stone; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0408
- Description
- A gold lorgnette with long gold chain set with moonstones. Closed, lorgnette appears as single, round, glass lens atop slim gold handle with large ring at bottom. Pushing tiny button at top of handle causes lenses to spring apart. Gold rimmed eyepieces held together by curved nosepiece hinged at ea…
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- Title
- Eyeglasses
- Date
- 1900 – 1930
- Material
- metal; stone; glass
- Dimensions
- 0.7 x 4.0 x 9.5 cm
- Description
- A gold lorgnette with long gold chain set with moonstones. Closed, lorgnette appears as single, round, glass lens atop slim gold handle with large ring at bottom. Pushing tiny button at top of handle causes lenses to spring apart. Gold rimmed eyepieces held together by curved nosepiece hinged at each eyepiece. Long 67.5 cm , fine, gold chain clipped to ring. Oval milky translucent, milkstones are bezel set at 12.0 cm intervals along each side of chain. Under nosepiece "14 k, hallmark"
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0408
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- Date
- 1900 – 1970
- Material
- ceramic
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0375
- Description
- White transparent slip with cobalt decoration in phoenix birds and flower design. Straight sided pot with flat base. Attached handle and spout. Lid has vapour hole. Calligraphy on base.
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- Title
- Teapot
- Date
- 1900 – 1970
- Material
- ceramic
- Dimensions
- 8.5 x 7.0 x 11.1 cm
- Description
- White transparent slip with cobalt decoration in phoenix birds and flower design. Straight sided pot with flat base. Attached handle and spout. Lid has vapour hole. Calligraphy on base.
- Subject
- households
- Edith Morse Robb
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0375
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