"American Extra Gun Powder" Tin
date: label: date made
content: ca 1835 - 1865
notes: label: Description
content: Small, cylindrical retail tin bearing a black letterpress-printed, blue paper label around its body for "AMERICAN EXTRA / GUN POWDER / PREPARED FOR SALE BY / M. GIBSON / Successor to B. Moseley / BOSTON, MASS." Flat top and bottom of container are folded over body, the top cut with a small pouring hole covered by a thin metal strip soldered at its ends under which a removable, triangular metal piece can be slipped to close the container. No other marks. Gunpowder inside.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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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.257491.0056
label: catalog number
content: 257491.0056
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: paper, wove (label material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (label material)
label: Physical Description
content: gunpowder (contents material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/8 in x 2 1/4 in; 8.5725 cm x 5.715 cm