Crate, Shipping
- Object Name:
- Crate, Shipping
- Object ID:
- 2006.016.01
- Creator:
- Edwards, Oliver -- Woodworker
- Place of Origin:
- North Weare, NH
- Date:
- 1917
- Description:
- Egg crate, made by Oliver Edwards (1867-1933), North Weare, NH, 1917. Painted and stenciled wooden crate for shipping eggs. Horizontal rectangular pine box with steel-hinged cover and pressure spring clasp. Painted gray-green. Plank handles on two sides. "2 C. A. THORP 2" stenciled in black letters on front and back. "C.A.T." stenciled in black letters on top and on handles. Interior divided into two compartments for stacking eggs for shipment. Layered with cardboard dividers. Each compartment has five layers, 36 eggs per layer (180 eggs in each compartment, 360 total). Excelsior on bottom. Maker's mark stamped in purple ink on inside of cover: "MANUFACTURED BY / OLIVER EDWARDS / North Weare, N. H. / JUNE 20 1917".
- Material:
- Wood
Pine - Dimensions:
- H-13.5 W-27.25 D-12.8 inches
- Provenance:
- Sold at a Richard Withington auction of the Charles Thorp estate in South Weare, NH, Aug. 13-14, 1996. Purchased by the seller at a Murray Wigston auction, Sept. 9, 1996.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase, Katharine Prentis Murphy Fund
- Subjects:
- Agricultural products, Agriculture, Boxes, Crates, Eggs, Poultry, Poultry industry, Shipping
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