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Accession # |
1993.13.1.06 |
Item Name |
Set, Picnic Set, Luncheon Flask Thermos Vessel |
Description |
A silver metal thermos (.04-.06) with a cylindrical body that tapers to neck with a cork stopper. Body is textured with horizontal grooves. Includes a silver metal screw-on lid that serves as a drinking cup. The word "THERMOS" is burned into the top. Part of a picnic basket set dated to the early 1930s: wicker basket (1993.13.1.01), green sandwich tins (1993.13.1.03), and a white ceramic butter crock (1993.13.1.08), a metal tin (1993.13.1.09), and plastic picnic ware (1993.13.1.022). |
Date |
1930 CIRCA |
Provenance |
The picnic set was bought in the early 1930s by the donor's parents, Justice George T. Walsh and Anna Walsh (d.1938), of Toronto. The donor (b.1928) remembers it being used to go on fishing trips with his father and brother to Musselman's Lake, north of Toronto. The tin which commemorates the 1937 coronation of George VI and Elizabeth was used to hold cookies. It was not an original piece to the set. The donor and his wife then used it on picnics with their family in the Toronto area in the 1950s. Their children would play with the pieces and eventually the utensils became lost to the set. The donor and his wife have lived in Wellington County near Alma since 1979. |
Person \ Organization |
Red Cross Society Walsh, Ron Walsh, Joan (Mrs.) Walsh, George Walsh, Anna |
Place |
Toronto Alma Elora |
Year Range from |
1930 |
Year Range to |
1935 |