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container, tapers

human history
  • Other Name

    Price's Coloured Tapers (brand name)

  • Description

    Tapers and container

    Price's Coloured Dropless Tapers. Made from metal, wax, and thread. A long cylindrical container made from meta that is missing it's lid. The container is painted green with designs of leaves, and branding text in gold and red. Text on the container reads: PRICES/ COLOURED/ DROPLESS/ TAPERS/ FOR LIGHTING/ CANDLES . GAS & C/ MANUFACTURED BY/ PRICE'S PATENT ??NDLE COY LTD/ LONDON & LIVERPOOL. The container is rusty. Inside the container is 16 white coloured wax tapers. The tapers are long and thin and has threads at both ends

  • Place
    London/England Liverpool/Merseyside/England
  • Accession Number
    1967.120
  • Accession Date
    07 Jul 1967
  • Other Id

    col.1751 (colonial)

  • Department

    History

    Social History

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  • container, tapers, 1967.120, col.1751, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • container, tapers, 1967.120, col.1751, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • container, tapers, 1967.120, col.1751, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • container, tapers, 1967.120, col.1751, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • container, tapers, 1967.120, col.1751, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • container, tapers, 1967.120, col.1751, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • tapers tin
  • tapers tin

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