Glass Christmas Ornament
Object Details
- Description
- Molded glass holiday or Christmas ornament. Ball, mirrored silver finish painted yellow-gold top and bottom, silver band remaining in center with simple pink leaf design painted around center band. Metal cap at top, with bent metal loop and attached metal hook, cap is slightly crushed, and is stamped with country of origin, but illegible. Possibly Germany or Poland. In 1937, a tariff decision (no. 54387) reversed earlier decisions regarding the marking of ornaments with their country of origin, established in the 1890 MicKinley Tariff Act and the Smoot-Havley Tariff Act of 1930. The ornament itself now had to be marked with with its country of origin by stamping it into the cap or by way of tag or sticker.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey L. Jones
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- after 1937
- ID Number
- 2014.0004.023
- catalog number
- 2014.0004.023
- accession number
- 2014.0004
- Object Name
- ornament, christmas tree
- Object Type
- ornaments
- Other Terms
- Ornament; Decorations
- Physical Description
- pink (overall color)
- silver (overall color)
- yellow (overall color)
- glass (overall material)
- metal (hanger material)
- sphere (ornament shape)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 5/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 4.1275 cm x 3.175 cm
- place made
- Germany
- Poland
- place used
- United States: District of Columbia, Washington
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- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Subject
- Christmas
- Record ID
- nmah_310595
