Bucket, Fire
- Object Name:
- Bucket, Fire
- Object ID:
- 1977.055.37
- Place of Origin:
- Durham, NH, area
- Date:
- 1810-1830
- Description:
- Fire bucket. "H / 45". Leather and iron. Cylindrical body, tapering downward, leaning to side. Rim color dirty yellow where there is any paint left. Background color black. On back, large yellow "H" near top and remnants of "45" below. On front appears to be roughly circular pattern with smaller circle inside creating a border about one inch wide. Associated with that are remnants of tall oval line that extends beyond the circle to left but is beyond it at top. Over that at top appears to be stem with leaves that starts at lower left across circle and across top. Three partial characters are on left circle pattern. Remnants of yellow paint on foot around edge between horizontal thread lines.
- Material:
- Leather
Iron - Dimensions:
- H-13.8 W-8.8 D-7.8 inches
- Provenance:
- From the James Cowan Sawyer Collection of household items, farm tools and equipment, and other items used in the Durham, NH, area.
- Credit Line:
- James Cowan Sawyer Collection, Gift of George F. Sawyer and Charles H. Sawyer
- People:
- Sawyer, James Cowan (1872-1944), Sawyer, George F. (1902-1992), Sawyer, Charles H. (1906-2005)
- Subjects:
- Fire fighting equipment
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