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"Green Mountain Rifle Powder" Tin
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Flattened oval, japanned retail tin bearing a large, circular, lithographed, pale blue paper label on one side for "GREEN MOUNTAIN RIFLE POWDER" and "LYMAN FENTON & C\O" around what appears to be a view of lions or leopards in a palm tree-filled landscape. Friction-fit, low-domed, stepped cover fits over a double-collared opening at top center of the container, which is made in three pieces, the body has a folded vertical seam at side, and the low-domed, stepped shoulder and slightly concave bottom have soft-soldered folded edges. Cover and collars have soft-soldered lapped seams.
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Credit line"Green Mountain Rifle Powder" Tin. ca 1849 - 1858. National Museum of American History, Gift of Dr. & Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood. CC0.
