Object Details
- Description
- Single twisted square bar terminating in faceted square knops and plain straight ends with threaded noles. No marks.
- Maker is Keyser Brothers Iron Works, 4041 Ridge Ave. in Germantown, Philadelphia, PA, 1928-1971. Run by James Moore Bryant Keyser (1902-1977) and master blacksmith Howard Keyser III (1904-1980). Specialized in residential and ecclesiastical ornamental wrought ironwork, including the High Altar Gates in the National Cathedral, Washington, D.C. The forge was housed in an 1850s stone industrial complex that was dismantled in 1971 (documented by HABS/HAER).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Howard Keyser
- 1928-1971
- ID Number
- DL.72.0013
- catalog number
- 72.0013
- accession number
- 299610
- Object Name
- picket
- Physical Description
- iron, wrought (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 1/4 in x 31 7/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 3.175 cm x 80.9625 cm x 3.175 cm
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Germantown
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_319191
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b1-f5fd-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
