Package, Product

Object ID:
1959.10845.8
Community:
Massachusetts, Hancock
Description

Cut-down tea package, cardboard sides with metal fastener to hold seam between cardboard ends together and a metal bottom. Box printed, "Black Tea", "... & Sons, Co. / Hartford, Conn...." Formerly contained: approximately 178 steel phonograph needle-like pins; approximately 78 galvanized steel glazer's points; 1 box of "#2 triangles" (glazer's points); 1 small copper washer; 1 1/2" x 4 3/4" x 4 3/4" brass screen and baler twine fashioned into a crude basket (for cleaning small parts?).

Massachusetts Hancock

Massachusetts Hancock

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Shaker Museum Package, Product. https://shakermuseum.us/object/?id=5717. Accessed on November 25, 2024

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