"Green Mountain Rifle Powder" Tin
"Green Mountain Rifle Powder" Tin
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- Description
- Flattened oval, japanned retail tin bearing a large, circular, lithographed, pale blue paper label on one side for "GREEN MOUNTAIN RIFLE POWDER" and "LYMAN FENTON & C\O" around what appears to be a view of lions or leopards in a palm tree-filled landscape. Friction-fit, low-domed, stepped cover fits over a double-collared opening at top center of the container, which is made in three pieces, the body has a folded vertical seam at side, and the low-domed, stepped shoulder and slightly concave bottom have soft-soldered folded edges. Cover and collars have soft-soldered lapped seams.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- tin, gunpowder
- date made
- ca 1849 - 1858
- place made
- United States: Vermont, Bennington
- Physical Description
- iron (overall material)
- tin (overall material)
- asphaltum (exterior decoration material)
- paper, wove (label material)
- ink (label material)
- Measurements
- overall: 6 7/8 in x 3 7/8 in x 1 5/8 in; 17.4625 cm x 9.8425 cm x 4.1275 cm
- ID Number
- DL.388746
- catalog number
- 388746
- accession number
- 182022
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. & Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
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- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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