New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Furniture Knob

Manufacturer Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. (American, 1826-1888)

Designer Deming Jarves

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1829

MediumPressed glass

DimensionsOverall: 2 5/8 x 2 1/8 in. (6.7 x 5.4 cm)

InscribedScrew shank marked in relief on end in circle "PATENT".

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number87.7

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 116-3, Case 19

DescriptionPressed, opaque light silvery blue. Remarkably good condition; slight roughage at end of screw.

Published ReferencesWilson, NEW ENGLAND GLASS AND GLASSMAKING, p. 259, fig. 216; McKearing, AMERICAN GLASS, p. 335, pl. 130, 3 & 3B; ANTIQUES MAGAZINE, Oct. 1935; L.W. Watkins, EARLY GLASS PRESSING AT CAMBRIDGE AND SANDWICH, fig. 1, p. 151-152; Barbara Bishop and Martha Hassell, YOUR OBDT. SERVT., DEMING JARVES, p. 16, ill. fig. 6 (Sandwich Historical Society).