Ensemble of metallic pieces from the collection of the Black Powder Museum * (Barcarena - Oeiras):
- plates (2), iron alloy, ink, pigment and enamel;
- shovels (3), copper alloy and wood;
- cans of gunpowder for hunting (6), iron alloy, paint, gunpowder and one with cork;
- measures 1/2kg (2), 1kg (2) and 2kg, copper alloy, paper and ink;
- pot for gunpowder, ceramics, copper alloy, iron alloy, paint and massiness;
- portable gunpowder tester (2), iron alloy, copper alloy and wood;
- keg for gunpowder, iron alloy and wood;
- casso, copper alloy, wood and varnish;
- edger for hunting cartridges, copper alloy, wood, iron alloy, cardboard, ink;
- device for cartridges, pestle and cartridge, wood, copper alloy and cardboard;
- brush, nickel-plated iron alloy (?) and textile fibers;
- coin box (telephone), wood, paint, iron alloy and paper;
- skimmers (2), copper alloy;
- torch for light signs (3), wood, paper, ink, tinned iron alloy and iron alloy.
* Integrated in the complex of the former Powder Factory of Barcarena, a factory of military equipment that, after several centuries of activity, would end in 1988. On June 17, 1998, the Black Gunpowder Museum was opened, housed in the building of the old Casa dos Engenhos, the oldest and most emblematic of the complex and the one where the first gigantic mills worked for the black powder coating.
Acknowledgements Black Gunpowder Museum (Barcarena - Oeiras) ~ Municipality of Oeiras
