Is ther evidence of a Key slot to roll the strip off the can?  It could be
meat or sardine (or other).  They can certainly date that early.

Jeanette McKenna


> [Original Message]
> From: Lockhart, Bill <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 7/21/2008 2:35:12 PM
> Subject: Ring-Pulls on Food Cans
>
> I am working with the group investigating the possible discovery of
Amelia Earhart's final camp, and they have found a ring-pull that almost
certainly came from a food can.  The shape of the ring its point of
attachment are both the wrong shape for beer or soda can ring-pulls.
>
> I have a photo of the rusted ring-pull.  It was certainly made of ferrous
material (rust and magnet test), but the few on food containers I am
familiar with are all aluminum.
>
> Any idea when food cans shifted from rolled steel to aluminum ring-pulls?
The ring looks very similar to the ones on recent sardine and oyster cans,
so we suspect this one came from some form of rectangular can.  The can,
however, was not found.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
>
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>
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>  
> Bill Lockhart
> Associate Professor of Sociology
> New Mexico State University
> Alamogordo, NM
> (575) 439-3732