L166 ANTIQUE AMERICAN 19th CENTURY WOODEN COOPERED FIRKIN SUGAR BUCKET

L166 ANTIQUE AMERICAN 19th CENTURY WOODEN COOPERED FIRKIN SUGAR BUCKET (image 1/1)
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LOT # 166 Detailed Photos Estate Road Show L166 ANTIQUE AMERICAN 19th CENTURY WOODEN COOPERED FIRKIN SUGAR BUCKET Item Description We are pleased to offer this magnificent Antique Wooden Coopered Firkin or Sugar Bucket. Old original painted surface, paint wear to lid. The firkin measures 12.25 x 12.25 and 11.25" inches tall without the handle. A Firkin is an old English Unit of Volume. The term firkin is currently used to refer to antique buckets, usually with a handle and lid. This Antique Firkin has a bentwood band swing handle that is attached to the bucket with wooden buttons and is pegged in the inside. See the pictures. This Antique Firkin is in very good condition and has very desirable age appropriate patina wear, including some nicks . In colonial times a cooper was a person who made leak proof wooden barrels, tubs, and pails. Coopers worked in villages, on plantations, and on ships. Barrels were used to hold food and liquids. The cooper used staves or narrow strips of wood to make a bucket. The cooper gathered staves then heated them over a small fire to make them bend. Then he pulled the staves together using a windlass tool. The lid of the bucket/firkin and the band were hand turned and then the two pieces were joined together, as the photos show. Old flat head copper nails. The band on the coopered firkin lid is joined read more
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