Object data
wood, iron, ore and paper
height 7.3 cm × width 41 cm × depth 33.2 cm
Aall & Sons
Box Containing Samples of Iron Ore, Iron and Steel
Norway, c. 1860 - c. 1870
Inscriptions
- inscription, on the steel bar samples: AALL & SONS / CAST STEEL, / WARRANTED.
- inscription, on a seperate note: Gegoten staal / Noorwegen Staal in staven / Nº 1 het zachtste / en zoo opklimmende / tot Nº 10 het hardste / Noorwegen IJzer gegoten / in zand / Noorwegen Hetzelfde in een / Coquille / Noorwegen bandijzer Solberg erts / magneetijzer steen 90% / Hornblende 10 % / Noorwegen Castgruber erts / magneetijzer steen 50% / Hornblende 20 % / [Brains]granaat 25% / Koolzùre kalk 5% / Noorwegen Langtor erts / magneetijzer steen 40% / Gilbgranaat 50% / Koolzùre kalk 10% / Noorwegen Verhouding van de / ertsen, voor te smelten / 40 pd Solberg / 72 - Castgruber / 188 - Langtor
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1188
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Oblong open wooden box, divided into eleven compartments, containing iron, steel and iron ore samples.
The three samples of iron ore have been removed at random from NG-MC-1093, which contained more samples than the original inventory mentioned.1 The samples of iron and steel originally consisted of ten bars (two are now missing), numbered from 1 to 10 in increasing order of hardness; two samples of cast steel, one cast in sand and the other in coquille; two samples of a heavy steel bar, broken; a strip of case-hardened steel; two bent iron bars.
Literature
J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1188
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Aall & Sons, Box Containing Samples of Iron Ore, Iron and Steel, Norway, c. 1860 - c. 1870', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245001
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