Antique Harden Star Quilted Sled Foot Aqua Blue Glass Hand Fire Grenade Extinguisher Pat .1883
This is a beautiful antique aqua Harden Star quilted sled footed fire grenade bottle.
The grenade has circular panels. One reads Harden's Hand Grenade Fire Extinguisher, in another No 1 Aug 8 '71 Pat Aug 14 '83.
It is currently empty of it's original contents and has fleabite chips to the lip.
There are four sled feet and a crack in the bottom of the bottle as seen in pictures.
Overall a very nice and hard to find grenade for any collection.
Hand Grenade Fire Extinguishers would have been used in a mine, assay shop, blacksmith shop, barn or refinery and were sold from the 1860’s through the early 1900’s.
Made of glass containing salt water or carbon tetrachloride, they were sealed with a cork and cement to prevent evaporation.
The bottles were thrown at the base of the fire, shattering the grenade and releasing its contents to put out the fire.
These versions of fire extinguishers were not very functional as they couldn’t hold a lot of liquid. Carbon tetrachloride also turned out to be very hazardous when inhaled.
When exposed to the heat of a fire, carbon tetrachloride can produce phosgene gas, which was a chemical weapon used during WWI.
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