"American Extra Gun Powder" Tin

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Description:

Small, cylindrical retail tin bearing a black letterpress-printed, blue paper label around its body for "AMERICAN EXTRA / GUN POWDER / PREPARED FOR SALE BY / M. GIBSON / Successor to B. Moseley / BOSTON, MASS." Flat top and bottom of container are folded over body, the top cut with a small pouring hole covered by a thin metal strip soldered at its ends under which a removable, triangular metal piece can be slipped to close the container. No other marks. Gunpowder inside.

Date Made: ca 1835 - 1865

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: Massachusetts, Boston

See more items in: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life, Domestic Furnishings

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Credit Line: Gift of Kenneth E. Jewett

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: DL.257491.0056Catalog Number: 257491.0056Accession Number: 257491

Object Name: tin, gunpowder

Physical Description: iron (overall material)tin (overall material)paper, wove (label material)ink (label material)gunpowder (contents material)Measurements: overall: 3 3/8 in x 2 1/4 in; 8.5725 cm x 5.715 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ae-a49e-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_310922

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