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Installation view of the exhibition "Humble Masterpieces"
April 8, 2004–September 27, 2004. Photographic Archive. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. IN1918.4. Photograph by John Wronn.
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Works identified
Earl S. Tupper
Drinking Cups
1946
Henning Andreasen
Folle 26 Stapler
1977
Marco Zanuso
Kitchen Scale (model BA 2000)
1969
Marianne Brandt
Table Clock
c.1932
Marcello Nizzoli
Letter Opener
1960
American Steel & Wire Co., Worcester, MA
Bearing Spring
Before 1934
Allgemeine Elektricitäts Gesellschaft (A.E.G.), Germany
Pocket Flashlight
1956
Sven Wingquist
Self-Aligning Ball Bearing
1907
Brown & Sharpe Mfg. Co., Providence, RI
Outside Firm-Joint Calipers
1920s
Josiah Wedgwood
Partial Coffee and Tea Service
1768
Cliff Chi
Gripz In-Line Skate Tool
1994
Charles B. Kaufmann
Bird Control Strips
1949
Louis Maslow
Whisk
1940s
After a design by Karl Elsener
Swiss Officers' Knife Champion (no. 5012)
1968
Wilhelm Wagenfeld
Salt and Pepper Shakers
1952-53
Michael S. Zane, Peter L. Zane
Kryptonite 4 Bike Lock
1976
Nick Butler
Durabeam Flashlight
1986-87
Décolletage Plastique Design Team
Bic Cristal® Ballpoint pen
1950
Walter Frederick Morrison, Warren Franscioni
Frisbee
Designed 1948 (this example 1957)
Italo Marchioni
Ice Cream Cone
1896
Forrest Mars
M&Ms
late 1930s
Margaret E. Knight, Charles B. Stilwell
Flat-Bottomed Paper Bag
Designed 1870s-1880s
Adolf Rambold
Double Chamber Tea Bag - Flow-thru Tea Bag
1949
Tetra Pak Research Laboratories
Tetra Brik
1959
Hanes, Inc
White T-Shirt
1910s
Thomas E. Noy
Yaktrax Walker for icy conditions
1996