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Fire Bucket

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Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1800-1825

GUSN

GUSN-2658

Description

Leather, painted green; handles.

Details

Descriptive Terms

buckets (vessels)
leather
painting (coating)
Leather
Painted
BUCKET, FIRE

Inscription

Painted on both pieces is: ""4 Elm Street, Kennebeck Tannery/ W. Weeks.""

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Additional Identification Number

1991.880.1,2

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

13 (H), 7.5 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.880.1-2

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