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Family-held objects and volumes
Material objects, the mourning volume, paintings and other family-held artifacts.
61 · 1907–1945
Arrangement: historical records follow their date; conventional viewing copies stay with their source, while new interpretations use their creation date. Related pages and views stay together; undated records follow.
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Document / objectThe sugar caster’s body and cover are shown apartThis object photograph separates the sugar caster’s body from its cover so both can be examined. The family kept the two parts together with the other silver pieces. The view records construction and condition, but not maker or date.
Document / objectRaised fruit and flowers cover the family silver boxThis frontal view shows the repoussé decoration on the oval family box. The object passed through family hands and is remembered with Margarete’s belongings. The ornament is visible, but no maker, date or place of manufacture has been secured.
Document / objectThe open silver box reveals its interiorThis view looks inside the family’s oval repoussé box. Generations kept the object, and the photograph records wear where contents and hands met the metal. It does not identify what the box held or who made it.
Document / objectThe cover and side show the box’s continuous ornamentThis three-quarter view follows the repoussé work from the cover down the side of the family silver box. The family kept the object with pieces associated with Margarete’s migration. The decoration can be compared across surfaces, but it does not yield a maker or date.
Document / objectThe family silver box rests in three-quarter viewThis object photograph shows the oval box’s raised fruit, flowers, leaves and scrolling forms across cover and sides. Family hands kept it with the silver associated with Margarete. The view records form and ornament, but no maker, date or documented migration history has been established.
Document / objectA putto sits among fruit and flowers on the silver boxThis close view centers the putto and symmetrical ornament on the box’s cover. The family kept the lid with the same oval repoussé box shown in the other views. The decoration can be read clearly, but it does not identify maker or date.
Document / objectThree struck marks survive under the family silver boxThis underside view records wear and three punches on the family’s repoussé box. The central mark appears to read “800,” and another contains a crescent-and-crown form. The marks invite comparison, but the left punch, maker and precise date remain unresolved.
Document / objectThe family chestA walnut-veneered chest remembered by the family as the one large piece Margarete brought out of Germany in 1939. Susan Reichenbach Heyman preserves the family account that Margarete took it from Germany. The chest has not yet yielded a maker or secure date.
Document / objectThe pierced escutcheon on Margarete’s family chestThe pierced rococo-style escutcheon. This close view lets us examine the surviving metalwork. It does not identify the chest’s maker or date.
Document / objectA gilt-brass pull on Margarete’s family chestOne of the chest’s gilt-brass drawer pulls. Wear on the handle shows use, but the photograph cannot identify who made or fitted it.
Document / objectThe book-matched veneer on Margarete’s family chestBook-matched burl veneer on the chest top. The close view records the wood surface and construction. It does not establish the chest’s maker or date.
Document / objectA second view of the veneer on Margarete’s family chestA second close view of the chest’s figured veneer. This second view helps compare the figured wood across the chest. It does not add a maker or secure date.
Document / objectPaul J.’s friends printed his nickname on a joke cardFriends made these “Voice of God” cards for Paul J. Reichenbach, turning his booming convention-announcer voice into a private joke. Paul kept one of the cards. It preserves the nickname and affection behind it, but the makers and exact date remain unknown.