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Vintage Union Paper Company Tube Canister (New York, Circa Late 1800s - Early 1900). Very Good Condition. FREE Shipping!
Here's anintriguingitem. Research has revealed that this particular little treasures' origin is from the Union Paper Company, New York.
Passages that identify information about the Union Paper Company, New York, these short narrative excerpts are listed exactly as written from the places we found them (with sources cited):
1. May 1897 article from THE PAPERBOX MAKER and AMERICAN BOOKBINDER, Vol V. No 7: "The Union Paper Box Company has removed from No. 844 Washington Street to No. 388 West Broadway. This company has put in some new machinery and also increased it's help, since removing, and is doing a very good business. It makes a specialty of round boxes, paper cans and paper tubes"
2.In the Book "Trow's (formerly Wilson's) Business Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, City of New York", Dated 1898, Vol LI, "The Union Paper Company, est. 1867, Specialties: Round Boxes, Paper Cans, Ribbon Blocks, Paper Tubes (page 1098)"
Tube is approximately 5 1/2" long x 1 1/4" wide,in Very Good Condition. Unsure of it's composition, but believe that it's made of tin? Tube includes slight scratching & corrosion,a few dents,& many decades of age has caused the metal tube to naturally oxidize & discolor.Bottom end of tube legibly reads: UNION PAPER CO NEW YORK.
Upper removable cap is in perfect operational condition; it screws on & off. It includes (what I believe to be), the original cardboard piece that remains inserted inside of the cap.Exterior of upper cap has a foreign substance on it (perhaps a glue/varnish of sorts?).I've made NO EFFORT whatsoever, to remove the foreign substance, nor to clean the tube, as I do not desire to possibly damage the structural integrity of such a unique, antique piece of Americana history.
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