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anonymous

Sample of Iron

? United States of America, 1876

Object data

iron

height 4.5 cm × width 5 cm × depth 4.4 cm

Provenance

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883

Object number: NG-MC-1379

Copyright: Public domain

Entry

Sample of iron in the shape of a thick hexagonal pipe, with a round inner diameter.

This sample comes from the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876.1

Literature

J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1379

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Sample of Iron, United States of America, 1876', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245184

(accessed 28 December 2024 15:47:05).

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