Percussion Cap Tin
date: label: date made
content: 1850 - 1900
notes: label: Description
content: Small, plain, cylindrical, black-japanned container with a friction-fit, flat cover stamped from one piece and a two-piece container with flat bottom folded over the soft-soldered lapped seam body. Both cover and container have plain edges, the container with a raised bead below. No marks. Appears to be a percussion cap tin that has lost its label.
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.257491.0058
label: catalog number
content: 257491.0058
label: accession number
content: 257491
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tin, percussion cap
label: Object Name
content: tin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 1 3/4 in; 2.54 cm x 4.445 cm