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A RARE WOOD POWDER KEG OF THE MASSACHUSETTS POWDER WORKS ABOUT 1860
The wood keg, banded at each end with four split wood straps, with an applied paper label featuring a hunting scene of two men, one loading his shotgun, their boat and their dogs, surrounding them Marsh & Sea Shooting Gunpowder/Manufactured by/Mass. Powderworks/Office No.1 City Wharf/Boston/A.G. Fay Potter & Gilley. The base with screw plug, the pencil notation "Course"
approximately 7 inches in diameter
approximately 9 inches in height
The wood keg, banded at each end with four split wood straps, with an applied paper label featuring a hunting scene of two men, one loading his shotgun, their boat and their dogs, surrounding them Marsh & Sea Shooting Gunpowder/Manufactured by/Mass. Powderworks/Office No.1 City Wharf/Boston/A.G. Fay Potter & Gilley. The base with screw plug, the pencil notation "Course"
approximately 7 inches in diameter
approximately 9 inches in height