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Round white ceramic tea infuser with pierced body and flared rim. Matching white ceramic saucer.
tea infusers
cookware
ceramic (material)
Infuser, Tea
"UNITED STATES PATENT / No. 370.141 / ENGLAND" (stamped)
"HOBBS'S INFUSER / PATENT / Rd 36829 / ANTITANNIC" (stamped)
"JONES. McDUFFEE & STRATTON / BOSTON / ENGLAND" (stamped)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
Hobbs Patent Antitannic Infuser Co. Ltd. (Maker)
Jones, McDuffee, & Stratton (Retailer)
Hobbs, James (Inventor)
2 1/2 (H), 4 1/2 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1926AB
Massachusetts (United States)
England (United Kingdom) [country]
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
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