4 Trapshooting Targets

Object Name: 
4 Trapshooting Targets

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Object Name: 
4 Trapshooting Targets
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
57.4.14
Dimensions: 
See Individual Records
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1875-1899
Primary Description: 
4 Trapshooting Targets. (A) Transparent heavy bubbly olive-green bottle glass; wear marks; free blown or mold-blown; sphere with hole on top having jagged edge; (B) transparent amber glass; mold-blown; sphere with orifice on top having small cylindrical "neck" with jagged edge; overall net pattern with an inscription band around circumference: "BOGARDUS' GLASS BALL PATD, APR 10 1877"; (C) clear bubbly glass with aquamarine tint; free or mold-blown; sphere with hole on top having jagged edge; inside the sphere scraps of material; (D) transparent amber partly bubbly glass; mold-blown; sphere with hole on top having jagged edge; pronounced mold marks.

More Info

Department: 
Science and Technology; Modern
Provenance: 
Copper, Miner J., Source
1957-09-28
Color: 
olive green
amber
aquamarine
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
mold-blowing
Material: 
glass

Objects in Set (4)

Trapshooting Target
Date:about 1875-1899
Accession Number:57.4.14 A
Trapshooting Target
Date:about 1875-1899
Accession Number:57.4.14 B
 
Trapshooting Target
Date:about 1875-1899
Accession Number:57.4.14 C
Trapshooting Target
Date:about 1875-1899
Accession Number:57.4.14 D