Object Details
- Description
- This set of eight stemmed cups accompanied the cocktail shaker also seen in the exhibit. They feature the same hammered effect and are made of silver. The cups are noticeably worn, perhaps from extensive use during Prohibition, a time when alcohol was outlawed in the name of social reform. Although making, selling, and transporting alcohol were illegal consuming it was not, and people devised many ways to continue this pastime.
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Bernard Rice's Sons, Inc.
- date made
- 1924 - 1925
- used date
- 1920 - 1950
- Credit Line
- Gift of Martha M. Patrick
- Physical Description
- nickel silver, electroplated (overall material)
- Measurements
- cup, stemmed: 12.5 cm x 8.1 cm; 4 15/16 in x 3 3/16 in
- overall: 5 in x 3 1/8 in; 12.7 cm x 7.9375 cm
- Object Name
- cup, cocktail
