Oak Barrel Butter Churn on a stand

c. 1880
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Overview

This churn is an oak barrel with cast iron fittings lying in horizontal position on a solid 4 legged trestle which brings it up to about thigh height. There is an oval opening in the middle of one side that is covered by a wooden lid with a cast iron latching system. At one end there is an iron crank handle that is attached to a central horizontal shaft. Inside the barrel it would seem as there used to be a paddle device but this is now missing and all that remains are three wooden pegs that may have mounted this device. The crank turned a paddle device inside the churn as well as rotating the barrel and the subsequent agitation would cause the cream to turn into butter. The barrel churn was an innovation of 18th century Europe.

Historical information

M Waide and Son of Crown Point Road, Leeds 10 were well known manufacturers of barrel butter churns in the last part of the 19th century.

Details

Details

Registration number
cwa-org-124-2024.179
Item type
Width
34 cm
Height or length
70 cm
Depth
64 cm
Inscriptions and markings

On the wooden lid appears the patent number

62893

On the crank end there is circular lettering

W WAIDE & SONS

Contextual Information

This is an unusual configuration for a Waide and Sons barrel butter churn, as most of their barrel churns rotated end over end rather than horizontally.

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Place made
Leeds
England
United Kingdom
Year
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Busselton Historical Society

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End view of the Oak Barrel Butter Churn
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Internals of the Oak Barrel Butter Churn

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