Tin bottle for holding a reserve of oil for open lamps
- Made:
- -1865 in unknown place
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Tin bottle for holding a reserve of oil for open lamps, pre 1865
This bottle would be carried by miners when working underground. Itb would generally be filled with rape oil, and would be used to replenish the supplies for the miner's lamps so that they had illumination for the duration of their working shift.
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- Category:
- Mining & Ore Dressing
- Object Number:
- 1895-134
- type:
- bottles
- credit:
- Geological Museum (Jermyn St.)
