Weighted Canister
date: label: date made
content: late 19th or early 20th century
notes: label: Description
content: Cylindrical, black-japanned, weighted canister or box with a gold-painted, trumpet-shaped knob soldered to the friction-fit, conical cover; painted with gold or yellow and red bands and penciling around top and sides of cover and at top and base of body. Cover has a folded-edge, overhanging top and soft-soldered, lapped seam sides with a rolled rim. Canister has a weight fitted in bottom inside and is made in two pieces, the body has a vertical folded seam and the flat bottom has a folded edge; its top edge is folded with raised bead below. No marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Kenneth E. Jewett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.257491.0023
label: catalog number
content: 257491.0023
label: accession number
content: 257491
objectType: label: Object Name
content: canister
label: Object Name
content: box, flour, weighted
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: asphaltum (exterior decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (exterior decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (exterior decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/8 in x 5 1/8 in; 13.01877 cm x 13.0175 cm