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A leather fire bucket of tall cylindrical form tapered at the bottom, with a thick leather hanle attached with wrought iron rings and leather straps. It is sewn with string; and painted a salmon/orange around the thick rim, painted and inscribed: "W. NOYES/1830" around an eagle on the front with the maker's stamp: "I. FENNO" on the reverse.
buckets (vessels)
impressing
iron (metal)
leather
painting (coating)
sewing (process)
string (fiber product)
Device, Fire Protection
Bucket, Fire
Leather
Iron
Machine Sewn
Painted
Bucket, Fire
Painted on the exterior front is: W. NOYES/1830 On the reverse is the maker's stamp: I. FENNO .
Bayley, Clark
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Fenno, John (Maker)
Boston, MA, USA
12.5 x 9 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1490
Massachusetts (United States)
Title Fire Bucket Accession Number 1991.881
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