Is This a Powder Flask??

[coinman123]

I found this some time in the past week or two. Today I was putting my finds in a container when I saw this. I remember finding it and thinking that it was a smashed bullet. I took it out of the container, and realized that it looks like the top of a flask, and that the organic material that it was connected to decomposed, and this was all that was left. I found it at a colonial location, so there is a potential that it could be old. Whatever it is, how old is it, and is it a powder flask?




Thanks, Coinman123,

 

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[BosnMate]

I don't see any way to attach the brass to the leather

 

[Ant]

I see an old top (cap and neck) to a tube, like toothpaste, plastic bubbles, gasket gunk, shaving cream, etc.

 

[coinman123]

I don't see any way to attach the brass to the leather

Your right, no rivets of any kind, I did notice that the dirt in the crevices was very sticky, maybe the remains of some adhesive.

 

[coinman123]

I see an old top (cap and neck) to a tube, like toothpaste, plastic bubbles, gasket gunk, shaving cream, etc.

I never thought of that, I think you may be right about that

 

[Ant]

When I was a young boy plastic bubbles came in a tube that had a cap like that. The fumes that stuff gave off were horrible it is a miracle we didn't become sterile.

 

[BosnMate]

When I was a young boy plastic bubbles came in a tube that had a cap like that. The fumes that stuff gave off were horrible it is a miracle we didn't become sterile.

I vaguely remember those plastic bubbles. You're right about the fumes. It's a miracle we survived between breathing that stuff, drinking out of the garden hose, and x-raying our feet at the Buster Brown shoe store. My name is Buster Brown, I live in a shoe, this is my dog Ruff, he lives in there to.

 

[QUICKSILVER (appletree)]

yes Ant i remember that stuff, Super Elastic Bubble Plastic it was chemicals that would eat the brain out of your head lol!!! but what he found is older, your right about it being a tube from anything from cream to rubber cement, his find is from i would say teens to the early 30's possibly as old as the turn of the century due to it having a brass cap

 

[stefen]

There was a time when many things came in lead containers such as tooth paste, glue, tire repair solvents, and the like...

Its a wonder that that generation didn't get lead poisoning as a result...Thanks to plastics, polimers and other material advances as a result of the military and space research...

 

[SkySgt]

I remember that plastic bubble stuff too. This was way back in the day when the Government left the toy companies alone and we had fun things to play with ..... The 1960s! The stuff I remember was called "Super Elastic Bubble Plastic."

Here is a link to a Bing search I did showing the plastic bubble stuff. Looks like we may still be able to buy it.

plastic bubbles blow from tube - Bing Images