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E. I. Dupont De Nemours Explosives Label

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Mining Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 USD
E. I. Dupont De Nemours Explosives Label
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This item SOLD at 2017 Jul 09 @ 15:10UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Unused label from the company established in 1802, Wilmington, Delaware. Manufacturers of explosives of every kind. Patent date on label 1908. Five and 1/4 inches in diameter, vignette show a battleship and two cannons. Rare.



"Eleuthere Irenee du Pont de Nemours, a French chemist who had emigrated to the U.S., opened a plant near Wilmington, Del., on May 1, 1804, to manufacture gunpowder. Mr. du Pont found his first spokesman when former President Thomas Jefferson sent him a letter in 1811 praising the Du Pont powder, and Mr. Du Pont made ample use of the unsolicited endorsement.

Through the 1800s, the company used branded powder flasks and broadsides to advertise the company and to emphasize the importance of gunpowder to the nation. Du Pont's Eagle brand powder used the slogan, "Matchless for its power. Strong, swift and fatal, as the bird it bore." Entering the smokeless powder and dynamite markets after the Civil War, the company controlled 36% of the U.S. powder market at the turn of the 20th century." --Advertising Age September 2003.



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