Can
- Object Name:
- Can
- Object ID:
- 1990.048.02
- Creator:
- Eureka Powder Works
Manufacturer - Place of Origin:
- New Durham, NH
- Date:
- 1856-1861
- Description:
- Can, empty gunpowder. Tinned sheet iron wrapped in orange paper with printed black lettering on back: "Manufactured / BY / EUREKA POWDER / WORKS / NEW DURHAM / N.H." Oblong shape. Painted red top. Screw cap missing. Printed engraving of hunting dog on front, and lettering "IMPERIAL / GUN / POWDER".
- Material:
- Metal
Tin
Paper - Dimensions:
- H-3.85 W-3.2 D-2 inches
- Provenance:
- Said to have been used with musket of Peter Kimball (1991.107.01), probably by his grandson, Solon Kimball (d. 1887), and great grandson, Joseph Hoyt Kimball, in Milford, NH.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Roger Gibbs
- Subjects:
- Gunpowder
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