PROPERTIES
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- SPARKLER
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1960
- Materials
- PAPER, COPPER, PHOSPHORUS
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041395
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- SPARKLER
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1960
- Materials
- PAPER, COPPER, PHOSPHORUS
- No. Pieces
- 4
- Height
- 0.3
- Length
- 20.7
- Width
- 5.2
- Description
- RECTANGULAR BROWN PAPER ENVELOPE WITH BLUE LOGO SHOWING A MONKEY SITTING WITH A BURNING SPARKLER IN HIS HAND. TOP READS "ELECTRIC SPARKLERS" AND BOTTOM HAS "CIERGES MAGIQUES". ENVELOPE PACKAGE CONTAINS THREE SPARKLERS WHICH ARE 16.9CM LONG COPPER SHAFTS WITH GREY PHOSPHORUS COMPOUND ON ENDS.
- Subjects
- PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT DEVICE
- Historical Association
- LEISURE
- History
- DONOR RELATES THESE HAVE SPECIAL MEMORIES ASSOCIATED WITH THEM BECAUSE SHE USED THEM TO PERFORM A PLAY SHE WROTE IN GRADE FIVE. HER FAMILY WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO HAD SPARKLERS AND HER PLAY WAS A TREAT FOR THOSE WHO WATCHED BECAUSE THEY HAD NEVER SEEN SPARKLERS BEFORE. THE NAKAYAMA FAMILY WAS ORIGINALLY FROM VANCOUVER BUT MOVED TO COALDALE FOLLOWING THE SECOND WORLD WAR WHEN THEY WERE INTERNED AT SLOCAN CITY IN THE INTERIOR OF BRITISH COLUMBIA BY THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT. THE DONOR'S FATHER, REV. CANON G.G. NAKAYAMA, WAS AN ANGLICAN MINISTER IN VANCOUVER, AND THEN ESTABLISHED THE CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION IN COALDALE IN 1945 WHERE HE SERVED UNTIL 1970. SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041395
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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