Pail
Pail
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- Description
- Small cylindrical pail with wire bail handle and friction-fit, domed cover with wire ring fastened at center. Pail made in two parts, the body has one folded vertical seam and flat bottom has folded edge. Cover has an overhanging folded edge and soft-soldered lappend-seam flange. Handle is looped around two ears riveted beneath the wire-rolled rim of the pail. No marks.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- pail
- date made
- 1850 - 1925
- place made
- United States
- Physical Description
- iron (overall material)
- tin (overall material)
- iron wire (rim, handle material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in; 9.525 cm x 9.525 cm
- ID Number
- DL.251349.0044
- catalog number
- 251349.0044
- accession number
- 251349
- Credit Line
- Kenneth E. Jewett
- subject
- Toys
- Children
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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