Box of Sausage Gun Cylinders
date: label: date made
content: late 19th century
notes: label: Description
content: Set of twelve sausage gun or stuffer cylinders in a rectangular, red-painted wooden box with twelve interior compartments; nailed construction. The plain, tinned sheet iron cylinders or tubes are of slightly different diameters; all have a folded vertical seam and rims folded inwards. No marks.
label: Description
content: These cylinders attached to casing or stuffing funnels and a wooden stuffer was used to push the filling out of the tubes.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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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.245425.0268
label: catalog number
content: 245425.0268
label: accession number
content: 245425
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cylinders, sausage, box of
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (cylinders material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (cylinders material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (box material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (box material)
label: Measurements
content: overall-set: 9 7/8 in x 8 1/8 in x 11 1/4 in; 25.0825 cm x 20.6375 cm x 28.575 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall-cylinder: 9 1/2 in x 2 in; 24.13 cm x 5.08 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall-box: 6 1/4 in x 8 1/8 in x 11 1/4 in; 15.875 cm x 20.6375 cm x 28.575 cm