Lead Drop Shot and Buck Shot Samples
notes: label: Description
content: This disk contains idents with nineteen samples of lead drop shot arranged in the outer circle and seven samples of buck shot in the inner circle. Around the rim of the drop shot samples reads “American Standard Shot, For Sportsmen.” Around the inner circle of buck shot samples reads, “Colwell Lad Company, 63 Centre Street, N.Y.,” and in the center, “Manufacturers of Drop Shot, Buck Shot, Bar Lead, Lead Pipe, and Sheet Lead.” The glass on the top of the disk is cracked with a missing piece on the right-hand side. Colwell Lead and Shot Company was founded by Lewis Colwell after the Civil War.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ER.293320.2802
label: accession number
content: 293320
label: catalog number
content: 293320.2802
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lead Shot Samples
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 8 3/4 in; x 2.2225 cm x 22.225 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall - from catalog card: 3/4 in x 8 3/4 in; x 1.905 cm x 22.225 cm