Object Details
- Description
- Small, cylindrical, japanned retail tin bearing a circular, white paper label printed (in black) "100 / No. 11 / Caps" on its underside. Friction-fit cover and container are made in two pieces and lined with leather, the flat cover top and flat container bottom folded over the soft-soldered lapped seam sides. Both cover and container have plain edges, the container with a raised bead below.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1850 - 1890
- Credit Line
- Gift of Kenneth E. Jewett
- Physical Description
- iron (overall material)
- tin (overall material)
- asphaltum (exterior decoration material)
- paper, wove (label material)
- ink (label material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3/4 in x 1 5/8 in; 1.905 cm x 4.1275 cm
- Object Name
- tin, percussion cap
