Objects Database

Fuel Bottle

Accession Number

071.2008.1(a-b)

Object Name

Fuel Bottle

Created

10/10/2008

Creator

Hermione Cooper

Accession Date

10/10/2008

Brief Description

Bashed metal bottle with unscrewable top.

Materials

brass

Dimensions

11.5(h)x18(circumference) cms

Number Of Objects

1

Colour

dirty brown with goldy lid

Provenance

This little bottle dates from the age of the Primus stove. A Primus, and many other similar types of stove, burned paraffin which needed to be very hot before it would vapourise and burn effectively. The best way to get it started was to use a little methylated spirit (meths) which would be poured into the specially designed bowl on the stove. Once lit it would warm the paraffin in the rising or vapourising tube and the stove would roar into life!
So this is a wee meths bottle probably from the 1950's.

Acquisition Date

10/10/2008

Condition Check Date

28/04/2009

Rules

Spectrum : UK Museum documentation standard, V.3.1 2007

Modified

28/04/2009

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