It sort of looks like a watch key?

Bill Liebeknecht
Regional Manager
Dovetail Cultural Resource Group
721 Philadelphia Pike
Wilmington, Delaware 19809

On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Robert Chidester <
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> Hey HISTARCHERS,
>
> We recently recovered a mystery object from a late 19th-century residential
> privy context at a site in Detroit. The object is a small brass canister
> mounted on an equally small brass post, with a thin strip of paper coiled
> up inside the canister. The back of the canister is missing, and the front
> is heavily corroded, but appears to have at least two words embossed on
> it (one arching across the top and the other across the bottom).
> Unfortunately corrosion has obscured all but a few of the letters, so we
> can't make out what the words are ("...LL...[B or R]O" across the top and
> "...ON..." [or "...NO..."] across the bottom). The canister itself is about
> 2 cm in diameter and 0.7 cm deep. Here are some photos:
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/uhtgc8syh4zf9em/AACoKjDGwncW0LJDurEQbEH5a?dl=0
>
> (I'm not sure the link is going to work; if it doesn't, just email me and
> I'll send the photos to people directly.)
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Bob
>
> --
> Dr. Robert C. Chidester
> Principal Investigator/Archaeology Team Leader
> The Mannik & Smith Group, Inc.
> 1800 Indian Wood Circle
> Maumee, OH 43537
> Ph: (419) 891-2222 ext. 206
> Fax: (419) 891-1595
>
> *Fiat justitia, ruat caelum.*
>



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