Object data
iron
height 10 cm × width 4.7 cm × depth 1.2 cm
Krupp
Iron Sample
Essen, 1858
Inscriptions
- inscription, on the front: ACXXX / 16 DEC / 1858
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-956
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Sample of folded iron.
According to the inventory the sample was folded cold and not hammered.1 This sample was procured by W. de Fremery from the Krupp factory in Essen in 1858. The Dutch Navy started negotiations with Alfred Krupp in 1857 and later started buying ordnance from Krupp.
Literature
J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 956
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Krupp, Iron Sample, Essen, 1858', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244770
(accessed 27 December 2024 13:52:18).