Bucket, Fire
- Object Name:
- Bucket, Fire
- Object ID:
- 1976.046
- Creator:
- Abbot-Downing Company
- Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1813-1850
- Description:
- Fire bucket. Owned by Lewis Downing (1792-1873), Concord, NH. Leather and iron. Background dark green. Inside dark brown. Handle dark brown. Handle tightly wrapped around rope interior. Attached with iron rings that have flat surface on bottom. Lugs are a fold-over type from flap of rim leather. Rim is well-rounded, seems to have more material inside it. Body has continuous curved taper that bellows out slightly below rim and tapers to foot. Yellow band bottom edge of rim and above foot. Two scrolls that meet together, red with yellow border. Flourishes on outward ends of scrolls. Yellow lettering in scrolls: "LEWIS / DOWNING."
- Material:
- Leather
Iron - Dimensions:
- H-13.3 W-7.4 D-7.8 Dia-8 inches
- Provenance:
- Belonged to Lewis Downing, Sr. (1792-1873) of Lexington MA. who lived in Concord beginning in1813 and commenced the carriage business which later combined with the Abbot-Downing Co.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
- People:
- Downing, Lewis (1792-1873)
- Subjects:
- Fire fighting equipment
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