Object data
copper and brass
height 50.5 cm × width 38.5 cm × depth 32.5 cm
anonymous
Powder Chest
Netherlands, 1859
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1021
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Rectangular copper powder chest with two handles and a round lid.
The lid has a pressure lock, consisting of a brass bar that pivots on a bolt in the middle of the cover which engages beneath two notches on the outside of the opening’s rim and is tightened by means of the pivot bolt.
This is the N° 2 pattern powder chest, used for powder, cartridges or other explosives. This type was used until well into the twentieth century.
Literature
H. van Goens, Handleiding tot de kennis van de zee-artillerie, Rotterdam 1861-65, pp. 230 ff.; J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1021; Atlas Artillerie Materieel Koninklijke Nederlandsche Marine, Amsterdam 1891, pl. LXXVI, fig. 17
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Powder Chest, Netherlands, 1859', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244836
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