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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
cupboard with eleven drawers containing metal accessories for tinware. [accession record entry]
Cupboard with no back and space for 12 drawers in two rows of 6 along the bottom. There are 11 drawers that appear to have been made from scrap wood to fit the holes. 10 of the drawers are longer than the cupboard carcass is wide and therefore extend beyond the back of the cupboard, one of the drawers is much shorter. 3 drawers have no handles and 3 different types of iron handle have been used on the other drawers. 7 drawers have cardboard labels nailed to the fronts. The drawers contain: 1) Jar of nails, Jar of rivets, 6" rivets, tape measure, wooden handle, brass knobs, brass screw tops for fitting to tin plate containers. 2) Wire D rings. 3) Wire rings with tin plate tabs. 4) cork bungs/stoppers. 5) Box of brass knobs, rivets, washers, large metal screw tops, tinned kettle ears. 6) Kettle ears, brown paper packet that used to contain kettle ears, corrugated paper/card packet of washers tied with string 7) (Heinz) baby food jar containing rivets, tinned box of rivets, hessian bag of rivets. 8) Small kettle ears. 9) Large (kettle) ears. 10) Three hessian bags containing brass screw tops of various sizes, the bottom of the drawer contains the same. 11) Cork stoppers/bungs some with tin plate tops. [RP; 05/01/2009]
