- Title Information
- Title
- Check cutter
- Subtitle
- detail view
- Name:
Corporate
- Name Part
- Gorham Silver Company
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- creator
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Codman, William Christmas
- Name Part:
Date
- 1839-1921
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- designer
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Sauthof, George W.
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- chaser (metalworker)
- Type of Resource
- still image
- Genre (aat)
- photographs
- Genre (aat)
- straightedges
- Origin Information
- Date Issued
(encoding="w3cdtf", keyDate="yes")
- 1903
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- xxz
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph; 33.6 x 43.8 cm.
- digitalOrigin
- reformatted digital
- Abstract
- Detail of cast silver check cutter (desk set accessory). Shows lower left corner of back with Gorham's marks of lion, anchor, and G. Form also called a "straight edge", but called a "check cutter" in Gorham records and publicity materials. Part of 16-piece desk set made for the inlaid silver table exhibited at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904.
- Note
- Size of original: 2.5 cm. x 23.8 cm. x 5.7 cm.
- Note
- Weight of original 5.2 oz.
- Note
- Material: Cast sterling silver
- Note
- Style: Art nouveau
- Note:
provenance
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred T. Morris, Jr.
- Note
- Repository: Rhode Island School of Design Museum
- Related Item:
Host
(displayLabel="Collection:")
- Title Information
- Title
- Gorham Collection
- Identifier:
COLID
- 44
- Identifier:
URI
- http://dl.lib.brown.edu/Gorham
- Identifier:
Local
(displayLabel="Gorham")
- DGE
- Identifier:
Local
(displayLabel="RISD Museum accession no.")
- 2006.114
- Identifier:
METSID
- 1242322838125000
- Access Condition:
rights statement
(href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/")
- No Copyright - United States
- Access Condition:
restriction on access
- Collection is open for research.