Pail: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pail: date made: 1850 - 1925. Object Name: pail. Physical Description: iron (overall material).
The object in the museum catalogue
Small cylindrical pail with wire bail handle and friction-fit, domed cover with wire ring fastened at center. Pail made in two parts, the body has one folded vertical seam and flat bottom has folded edge. Cover has an overhanging folded edge and soft-soldered lappend-seam flange. Handle is looped around two ears riveted beneath the wire-rolled rim of the pail. No marks.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1850 - 1925
- Object Name: pail
- Physical Description: iron (overall material)
- Physical Description: tin (overall material)
- Physical Description: iron wire (rim, handle material)
- Measurements: overall: 3 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in; 9.525 cm x 9.525 cm
- place made: United States
- Subject: Toys
- Subject: Children
- ID Number: DL.251349.0044
- catalog number: 251349.0044
- accession number: 251349
- Credit Line: Kenneth E. Jewett
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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