Wire bottle opener from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway: Museum Object and Cultural History
Wire bottle opener from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway: Date: before 1984. Manufactured by: Vaughan Novelty Manufacturing Company, American, 1910 - 1984. Distributed by: Miller Brewing Company, American, founded 1855.
The object in the museum catalogue
A Miller Brewing Company wire bottle opener from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway. The silver tone bottle opener is constructed from a single piece of thin metal rod that has been roughly bent into a T-shape with a pentagonal shaped top and triangular handle. The pentagonal top of the bottle opener has three, interior, flattened tabs, at the top and the sides, that are designed to remove to bottle caps. The triangular bottle opener handle has been flattened and stamped with text on both sides. Text on one side reads [MILLER BREWING COMPANY] and [MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN]. Text on the other side reads [Miller] in cursive script and [HIGH LIFE BEER / VAUGHAN / CHICAGO]. The rod is soldered together at the bottom of the handle.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: before 1984
- Manufactured by: Vaughan Novelty Manufacturing Company, American, 1910 - 1984
- Distributed by: Miller Brewing Company, American, founded 1855
- Owned by: Cab Calloway, American, 1907 - 1994
- Type: bottle openers
- Medium: metal
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 3 9/16 × 1 7/16 × 3/16 in. (9 × 3.6 × 0.4 cm)
- Place made: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Band (Music)
- Topic: Conductors (Musicians)
- Topic: Cooking and dining
- Topic: Entertainers
- Topic: Jazz (Music)
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Topic: Travel
- Object number: A2015.273.1.1.2
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Cabella Calloway Langsam
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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