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Packing Crate Flour Box


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      Creator(s):
Wagner, Phillip

Date: 1900 -

Description: Made from a packing crate and lined with tin, with a mouse proof lid and wallpaper decorated on the outside. Made by Phillip Wagner brother to Martha Howard. This flour box held three bags of flour weighing 150 pounds each, most people bought in bulk to save trips to Hobart as cartage at that time was by horse and cart in the early 1900s

Format: realia
Object: boxes
Material: wood (material);  tin

Titles:
Packing Crate Flour Box

Subjects: containers & packing equipmentflour

People/Orgs: Howard, MarthaWagner, Phillip

Places: Woodsdale, Tasmania

Institution: Levendale and Woodsdale History Rooms Inc.

Object number: LHR_PH0037

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