1800-1899
GUSN-12450
1AB) Round tin container with lid. Container lined with blue paper. 1B,2,3) Lids with white paper covering the top contains a crest with a lion and a unicorn. 4) Lid without paper label.
containers (receptacles)
paper (fiber product)
printing (process)
tin (metal)
crests (motifs)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
lion
Tin
Unidentified Paper
Transfer Printed
Yoked Crest
Lion
Unicorn
CONTAINER
Below the crest reads: Military Percussion cap maker TO THE H'BLE BOARD OF ORDNANCE/S. Walker Improved Anticorrosive Caps/250 Price No32.
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Possibly Walker (Maker)
0.625 (H), 2.125 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.1605.1-4
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