Extinguisher, Fire
Hayward hand grenade-type fire extinguisher, Hancock, MA
1870-1900
Description
Hand grenade type. Three bottles, two matching, in wire rack. Two clear glass bottles, stoppered with concrete-covered cork; one has foil cap, the other is lost. Fluted walls and two diamond-shaped flat panels on opposite sides; fluted shoulders with flat section at top where it meets the neck. Third bottle is blue glass, smaller; walls have quilted diamond pattern and four flat, round section on each side, and rings at shoulders and thick ring around neck near rim. Stoppered with flaking concrete. In wire rack holding bottles in a row; wire handle over middle bottle, and smaller gauge wire wrapped around bottle necks holding them in place (broken, not holding one bottle). Liquid content in all three bottles.