Waters-Genter Company
Toastmaster
1926
Physical Qualities
Chrome, metal, plastic, 7 x 9 x 6 1/4 in. (17.8 x 22.9 x 15.9 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Gail G. Markley, Columbia, Maryland, in Memory of her Mother, Margaret Conolley Gotsch
Object Number
2002.595
Box-form, two-slice format toaster. The chrome-plated steel body has a 'waterfall' treatment one side of top, while the sides of the box have a repetitive, concave recesses or fluting. The toaster rests on an attached, stepped, chrome-plated steel base. Bread release is of angular black plastic with incised, line finger grip. Control knob is plastic. Cord is a replacement.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2002; Gail Markley, Columbia, Maryland
Gamynne Guillotte and Oliver Shell, Joseph Education Center, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Imagining Home," October 25, 2015 -
Inscribed: BASE, (metal plate) 'MFD. BY WATERS-GENTER CO. MPLS. MINN. U.S.A. / U.S. PAT.1.698.146 1.387.670 1.394.450 1.676.?57 1.866.808 / OTHERS PENDING / V.110-A.9.8-11.8-NO. 140822-MOD.1B3' FRONT (in vertical letters) 'TOASTMASTER'
On View: American Wing Second Floor, Scott 04/Stairwell Case 1