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: mid 20th-late 20th century. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Owned by: Cab Calloway, American, 1907 - 1994.
The object in the museum catalogue
A 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 rod is bent into a triangular shaped handle that is soldered together at the bottom.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: mid 20th-late 20th century
- Manufactured by: Unidentified
- Owned by: Cab Calloway, American, 1907 - 1994
- Type: bottle openers
- Medium: metal
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 3 3/8 × 1 7/16 × 3/16 in. (8.5 × 3.6 × 0.4 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Band (Music)
- Topic: Conductors (Musicians)
- Topic: Cooking and dining
- Topic: Costume
- Topic: Entertainers
- Topic: Jazz (Music)
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Object number: A2015.273.1.1.31
- 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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