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San Marino, CA 91108
Tools and equipment
Pair of Fire Buckets
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- Date
- ca. 1839
- Accession number
- L2015.41.189
- Maker
- Unknown, American(Opens in new tab) (American)
- Dimensions
- 12 1/4 x 8 3/8 x 8 3/4 in. (31.1 x 21.3 x 22.2 cm.)
- Medium
- leather and paint
- Description
- Pair of red painted and eagle decorated fire buckets, each bucket front decorated with a dramatic shielded eagle, having banners as following: the top in clasped beak, inscribed - Mechanic Fire Society; the lower grasped in talons inscribed - William P. Gookin; the shield centered with a pair of trade symbolic shears, verso inscribed - 1811, No. 1 and No. 2, respectively.
