Wooden Box Butter Churn on stand

c. 1900
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Overview

This largish wooden box butter churn on a stand could have produced up to 40lbs of butter. It has a wooden rectangular box with a central cast iron shaft that is attached to the wooden trestle stand by iron fittings and driven by a crank handle. Internally there are there are no paddles or crank shaft so either these are missing or the churn simply relied on the rotating of the box. One face of the wooden box has a circular opening which has a wooden lid attached by eye bolts. In the lid there is a small glass window which the operator could use to check the progress of the butter.

The lid would be removed and the stored cream would be poured into the box. The lid would then be closed via the eye bolts and the operator would turn the crank handle until the butter formed, checking progress through the small glass window.

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Registration number
cwa-org-124-2024.160
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Material
Width
73 mm
Height or length
107 mm
Depth
42 mm
Contextual Information

This butter churn would have been used in a semi commercial manner as farms with medium sized herds would make up to 40lbs of butter at a time which could then bartered for other goods.

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