Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
April 14, 1813
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 65
Additional Source Text:
"This is the first of this interesting metal made maleable and used. (Prepared by Dr. Bollman) Made & presented by Mr. Anthony Rasch."
Poulson's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 30 June 1813 adds: "Mustard Spoon" and "unwrought" metal.
Notes:
"Justus Erich Bollmann (1769-1821) was a German physician, adventurer, merchant, economist, author and manufacturing chemist. Bollmann arrived in New York from England in 1796, after acquiring a knowledge of chemistry in Paris. He lived for most of the ensuing twenty years in Philadelphia where he became a member of the American Philosophical Society. He was the first to prepare malleable platinum on a commercial scale in the United States." John A. Chaldecott, "Justus Erich Bollmann and His Platinum Enterprises: Activities in North America and Europe Before the Year 1816," Platinum Metals Review, 25, 4 (1981): 163-172 / https://www.technology.matthey.com/article/25/4/163-172/
Anthony Rasch was a Philadelphia silversmith.
