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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Fire Bucket
Object Number
1998-02-1
Description
Leather fire bucket, hand sewn, black outside, brown interior, body compose of single piece of leather, sewn at back seam, base of circular piece sewn to body. Strap handle wrapped around iron rings at each end, rings attached to body by loops of leather that are sewn into the rim. On the front in gold stenciled lettering around a cartouche: "THOs R. TROWBRIDGE"
Comment
This was likely owned and possibly made by Thomas Trowbridge (1764-1837) who moved to Litchfield from West Haven around 1791. He worked as a shoemaker and had a tannery on his property, the Abraham Bradley house on West Street. He was a deacon at the First Congregational Church and was one of the earliest members of the Litchfield Temperance Society. The bucket may also have belonged to his son, Thomas Trowbridge (1787-1850), who lived in Litchfield and worked in the tannery for a time.
Date Made
Early 19th century
Dimensions
12 1/2"H Body x 19"H with handle, 5 1/4" D at base x 7" D at rim
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