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1960.34.6

ID Number: 1960.34.6
Category: Distribution & Transportation Artifacts
Sub-category: container
Item Type: forms
Item Name: barrel
Materials: WOOD, UNKNOWN METAL, IRON
Description: Wood hoops fastened by iron bands; bundle of 6
History: "Luke Saunders was the last cooper to use this equipment (up to the fall of 1938). It was used to make barrels in which Point Pelee apples were shipped to Britain. The freighter on which they had been shipped was sunk by the Germans at the beginning of World War II."
Collection Name: Museum Windsor
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