"Duck Shooting Gun Powder" Tin
"Duck Shooting Gun Powder" Tin
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- Description
- Red-painted, corrugated cylindrical retail tin for "DUCK SHOOTING GUN POWDER" made by the Hazard Powder Company of Hazardville, CT. Container is made of three pieces, body and inset, molded ends, all joined by folded seams. One end has a small circular opening with flat metal cap and the other bears a large, circular, lithographed white paper label depicting a duck standing in tall grass at center as a dog looks on in the left background, the scene bordered by product information; a few numbers and letters are scratched at top right. No other marks. Gunpowder inside. Two small holes at sides of cap are for wire loop.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- tin, gunpowder
- date made
- ca 1850
- place made
- United States: Connecticut, Hazardville
- Physical Description
- iron (overall material)
- tin (overall material)
- paint (exterior decoration material)
- metal, white (cap material)
- paper, wove (label material)
- ink (label material)
- gunpowder (contents material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 5/8 in x 6 1/4 in; 19.3675 cm x 15.875 cm
- ID Number
- DL.257491.0057
- catalog number
- 257491.0057
- accession number
- 257491
- Credit Line
- Gift of Kenneth E. Jewett
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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