Flints
date: label: date made
content: 1825 - 1875
name: label: user
content: Copp Family
notes: label: Description
content: The Copp family of Stonington, Connecticut owned these three gun-flints for flintlock rifles. In a flintlock rifle, a wedge-shaped flint would be held in the jaw of the hammer. Once cocked, the trigger pull propels the hammer forward, the flint strikes the steel frizzen, simultaneously creating a spark and opening the pan to reveal the gunpowder. The spark ignites the gunpowder, firing the rifle.
label: Description
content: The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
label: place used
content: United States: Connecticut, Stonington
title: label: Title
content: Gun Flints
topic: label: Subject
content: Lighting
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Copp Collection
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Brenton Copp
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.006511
label: catalog number
content: 6511
label: accession number
content: 28810
objectType: label: Object Name
content: flints
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: flint (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (backing material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 4 in x 6 in; 1.27 cm x 10.16 cm x 15.24 cm