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"Boontonware Deluxe" salt shaker

Designed by: Belle Kogan (American, born in Russia, 1902 – 2000)
Manufactured by: Boonton Molding Company (active 1920–1981)
designed about 1952
Object Place: Boonton, New Jersey

Medium/Technique Melamine and polyvinyl (?) (plastics) in Butter Yellow
Dimensions Overall: 8.1 x 1.9 cm (3 3/16 x 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Barbara McLean Ward and Gerald W. R. Ward
Accession Number2010.537.1
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CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsPlastics

Marks Boontonware/522 U.S.A. (Boontonware is in script)
ProvenanceAround 2000 to 2010, purchased by Barbara and Gerald Ward, Portsmouth, NH, at various dealers, primarily in Maine and Hampshire, or acquired on eBay; 2010, given by the Wards to the MFA (Accession date: June 16, 2010)