Civil War eara box & pail?

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Just added a photo album "BOX & PAIL"

Would really appreciate any comments you might have...

posted by GDavid

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The lock and latch have most defiantly been replaced but from the style and the patina it appears to have been done many years ago....

posted by GDavid
over 2 years ago

The nails are for sure hand hammered......

posted by GDavid
over 2 years ago

Is this what you meant by "PAPERED"?....the squirrely stain must be the glue residue...if you can blow the pictures up large enough you can read words but no sentences....nothing makes any sense...

posted by GDavid
over 2 years ago

Tag found in box....obviously from an auction....

posted by GDavid
over 2 years ago

Certainly very interesting GDavid. In the the first picture under the words "The nails are for sure hand hammered..." the heads of the two nails are imprecise that is they differ and therefore suggest to me that they were handmade.

I will look into it in a day or 2 to see what I can find.

Normally if found papered then they were used for storage, otherwise used as transport boxes. The pail also I have to look at again.

Other members have any ideas to share?

posted by Daffodil56
over 2 years ago

If I could only see it, All my pictures are disappearing. I draw a blank

posted by gatemate
over 2 years ago

I tend to agree with you that the box is of the civil war era. My premise for agreeing with you mainly is due to the the dove tails and the nails (not the new ones). Before the war most nails were made at home and sold from home until late 1800s when the nail making machine appeared. Granted that the restoration companies can duplicate such nails but the wear and tear on this box appears genuine. If you were ever in the country as a young man you would now that pellet shooting at anything as a target was great fun.

posted by Daffodil56
over 2 years ago

If you were ever in the country as a young man you would know that pellet shooting at anything as a target was great fun.

posted by Daffodil56
over 2 years ago

Your bucket is in an extremely good condition a nd as far as I can tell the ingenious art of making wooden buckets gave way to the tin pail sometime early after the Civil War. Lots of companies manufactured these wooden buckets and normally they would have some imprint (or what's left of it) on them. That's the only info I gathered but your item seems genuine. I also checked a company who is making wooden buckets and they seem to be not cheap.

posted by Daffodil56
over 2 years ago

Very nice trunk. I have come in contact with several like this that were still in the same family and in each case they had been used by the original owner when traveling to and from Europe in the 18th and 19th century. Often paper was used as a liner and the resin in the wood itself would cause the paper to stick with climate changes. Find a piece of it with a date and you have some definable history but not necessarily a confirmable age. Locks are often changed because either they broke or the key was lost.