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Ives Hardware brass letter box plate
Ives Hardware brass letter box plate

Ives Hardware brass letter box plate

MediumBrass
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (height x width of letter box plate): 3 1/2 × 13in. (8.9 × 33cm)
Component (height x width x depth of box): 4 × 13 1/2 × 1 3/8in. (10.2 × 34.3 × 3.5cm)
ClassificationsHardware
Credit LineMuseum purchase
DescriptionRectangular brass frame with a contoured hinged flap and holes in each corner for screws. In a box with a blue cover printed with "IVES for enduring quality/Builders Hardware/For the Extra Quality Touch" printed on the diagonal over the surface. Has a price sticker from Anderson & Hammerlind, West Hartford, Conn. on one side, price marked $9.75.
Object number2015.119.1.1-3
MarkingsIVES stamped in an oval
On View
Not on view
Gift of Mrs. Clifford Burdge, 1970.3.0, Connecticut Historical Society, No known copyright
Harriet Ives Bartholomew
about 1839-1840
Connecticut Historical Society collection, 1950.356.0  Photograph by David Stansbury.  © 2010 T…
Polly Ives
3 December 1795
The Soldier's Grave.
Currier & Ives
1862
Gift of Shirley S. Devoe, 1972.4.47  © 2014 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Goodrich, Ives & Company
late 19th century
Gift of Sam Stout, 2013.90.1  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
G. Fox and Co.
1946-1952
Gift of Sam Stout, 2013.90.2  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
G. Fox and Co.
1946-1952
Man's Shoes and Original Box
G. Fox and Co.
about 1970-1975
Plate
Vernon Kilns
1950s