Gunpowder Tin
date: label: date made
content: 1855 - 1895
notes: label: Description
content: Screw-top, flattened oval, japanned container with a small, milled-edge, spool-shape cap. Faint traces of gilt-stenciled letters in three lines are visible on one side; only part of second line is legible "[?]PLE POWDER". Made in three pieces, the body has one vertical folded seam at side and the low-domed, stepped shoulder and flat bottom have folded edges. Cast threaded opening is soldered at top center. 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.257491.0019
label: catalog number
content: 257491.0019
label: accession number
content: 257491
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tin, gunpowder
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, white (cap and opening material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (exterior decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/8 in x 3 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 11.1125 cm x 8.255 cm x 3.175 cm