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1800-1850
GUSN-25190
Match or shot container. Elongated flattened cylinder, forming an oval mouth. Body constructed from a single sheet of tin w/ a soldered seam at one side. Applied oval bottom and corresponding oval cover w/ flat top which is fitted to the mouth. Originally a bright silver colored "white" metal, now dull grey.
tins (containers)
iron (metal)
tinning
Unidentified Metal
Tinned
TIN
Coffin House (Newbury, Mass.),
Unknown
3.25 (W) (inches)
Gift of Margaret E.C. Merriam in memory of her mother Elizabeth Low Coffin Colman
1985.249
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