1960.34.8

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Details

ID Number

1960.34.8

Category

Distribution & Transportation Artifacts

Sub-category

container

Item Type

band

Item Name

barrel

Materials

WOOD, UNKNOWN

Measurements

overall: 1 1/4 in

Description

Approximately 50

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

Subject (Fre)

Y

Subjects

Manufacturing subject

Pelee Island (Ont.) / Île Pelée, (Ont.) place

Saunders, Luke person

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