OPENER, BOTTLE
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- COMBINATION TOOL (FLIPPER)
- Date Range From
- 1920
- Date Range To
- 1930
- Materials
- STEEL
- Catalogue Number
- P19920026000
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- COMBINATION TOOL (FLIPPER)
- Date Range From
- 1920
- Date Range To
- 1930
- Materials
- STEEL
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Length
- 27.6
- Width
- 6.4
- Description
- HEART SHAPED SPRING STEEL FLIPPER END WITH SMALL HEART SHAPED CUT OUT NEAR RIVETS WHICH ATTACHES HANDLE. HANDLE END IS SHAPED TO FORM BOTTLE OPENER. HANDLE PORTION FLATTENED FOR HOLDING, EMBOSSED "SHAMROCK BRAND PRODUCTS", AND "P. BURNS & COMPANY LIMITED".
- Subjects
- FOOD PROCESSING T&E
- Historical Association
- DOMESTIC
- History
- P. BURNS & CO. A WESTERN MEAT RETAIL & WHOLESALE COMPANY HAD OUTLETS ACROSS THE PRAIRIES & WAS HEADQUARTERED IN CALGARY. COMPANY DATES TO 1880'S. ITEM WAS LIKELY GIVEN TO GOOD CUSTOMERS AS A PROMOTIONAL PRACTICE, COMMON PRE W.W.2. BELONGED TO MRS. H.L. MONTGOMERY WHO WORKED AS A STENO FOR P. BURNS FROM 1910 TO 1919, IN CALGARY. FAMILY LATER MOVED TO LETHBRIDGE. DONOR IS DAUGHTER, FAMILY ORIGINALLY FROM MANITOBA & NEWFOUNDLAND.
- Catalogue Number
- P19920026000
- Acquisition Date
- 1992-06
- Collection
- Museum
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