Can, honey

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OBJECT TYPE: 4 LBS/HANDLE
DATE: 1900–1949
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 2009.0032.001

MANUFACTURER: Unknown
MODEL: Wallace Moase
LOCATION: Unknown

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 1
Total Parts: 1
AKA: N/A
Patents: N/A
General Description: metal

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length: 12.8 cm
Width: 13.5 cm
Height: N/A
Thickness: N/A
Weight: N/A
Diameter: N/A
Volume: N/A

Lexicon

Group: Agriculture
Category: Apiculture
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: Unknown
Country: Unknown
State/Province: Unknown
City: Unknown

Context

Country: Canada
State/Province: Prince Edward Island
Period: Unknown
Canada: Example of container used by Prince Edward Island producers to store and sell honey. Used by Wallace Moase apiaries.
Function: To contain and store honey sold to consumers.
Technical: Prior to the use of cans, crocks would have been used for the domestic retail sale of honey. In the 1940s and 1950s, apiaries started to use glass jars. The can holds honey and identifies producer, province, and the grade of honey.
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: Print on front reads: "PURE CANADIAN/ HONEY/ FROM THE APIARY OF/ WALLACE MOASE/ [KE]NSINGTON P.E. ISLAND"/ Lid has recipes for Cottage Cheese Torte, Delicious Pudding, Chocolate Milk, Honey Tomato Juice Cocktail.
Missing: None
Finish: Metal can with blue lacquered background/ black print on can and lid
Decoration: depicts a hive and bees

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Unknown Manufacturer, Can, honey, between 1900–1949, Artifact no. 2009.0032, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2009.0032.001/

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