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Milk can

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Collection Type

  • Cooking equipment

Date

1850-1900

GUSN

GUSN-25063

Description

Undecorated gray sheet tin body. Cylindrical body w/ flat botom and soldered seams. Canted shoulders tapering to a wide cylindrical neck w/ rolled under lip at mouth. Applied strap handle at mouth terminating at shoulder.

Details

Descriptive Terms

milk cans
cookware
tin (metal)
Tin
CAN, MILK

Associated Building

Coffin House (Newbury, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

6.25 x 5.875 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Margaret E.C. Merriam in memory of her mother Elizabeth Low Coffin Colman

Accession Number

1985.316

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