Two-piece tin (bottom and lid) measures 2 ½” x 2 ¼” x 1 ¼”.  Lid reads, “CALIFORNIA CAP CO. / SAN [Maltese cross] FC’O / XXX”.  Tin has an even gray patina overall. No dents.

The first American manufacture of blasting caps was started about 1877 by William Oliver and Freeborn Fletter. Together they built a small cap factory near Stege, CA and incorporated their business as the California Cap Company in April 1880. Fletter died in 1899 and Oliver in 1918. Following Oliver’s death, his son Roland Oliver succeeded him as president. The California Cap Company became the major supplier of blasting caps for the western U.S. for many years. After a long stretch of supplying blasting caps to the western mines, the company ceased operations in the 1940s. [jet]

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