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The Mickey Coffee Pot, (sculpture). Artist:  Mickey, Samuel, sculptor. Mickey, Julius, sculptor. Title:  The Mickey Coffee Pot, (sculpture). Other Titles:  Coffee Pot, (sculpture). Old Salem Coffee Pot, (sculpture). Dates:  1858. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Sculpture: tin (?) and wood; Base: concrete. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. H. 120 in. x Diam. 60 in.; Base: approx. 80 x 20 x 20 in. Inscription:  (Plaque on pole from base to sculpture:) THE MICKEY COFFEE POT/Built in 1858 by the brothers/Samuel and Julius Mickey, Moravian/descendants of the founders of Salem, this/landmark originally stood as a sign in/front of their tin shop at the corner of/South Main and Belews Streets in Salem/Wachovia Historical Society unsigned Description:  A silver-painted, old-fashioned coffee pot with a conical lid. The sculpture is mounted on a pole connected to a cylindrical base. Subject:  Object -- Other -- Cookware Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- North Carolina -- Winston-Salem Billboard Sculpture Owner:  Administered by City of Winston-Salem, Property Maintenance, City Yard, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27101 Located At the triangle formed by Main, Old Salem & Brookstown Streets, Winston-Salem, North Carolina Remarks:  The coffee pot was built as an advertisement for Julius Mickey's tin shop. The sculpture originally stood outside Mickey's shop but was moved to its present location in 1960 to make way for a new interstate. The coffee pot has become a symbol of Winston-Salem. IAS files contain articles from the Winston-Salem Sentinel, Aug. 20, 1954; the Winston-Salem Journal Jan. 15, 1959; April 10, 1966; Dec. 19, 1966; and March 2, 1976, discussing the sculpture's history and legends, its move for the creation of the interstate, and its role as a symbol of Winston-Salem. IAS files also contain excerpts from Fambrough L. Brownlee's "A Pictorial History," Donning Co., Publishers, 1977, pg. 172, providing a brief history of the sculpture. In addition, IAS files contain excerpts from Frank V. Tursi and John F. Blair's "Winston-Salem: A History," 1994, which includes photocopies of historical pictures showing the sculpture at its original location on Main Street in the late 1890s and in 1927. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, North Carolina survey, 1994. Illustration:  Image on file. Tursi, Frank V., John F. Blair, "Winston-Salem: A History," 1994. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAS NC000306   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture NC000306 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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