Butter Churn

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Collection Type

Cooking equipment

Date

1800-1850

GUSN

GUSN-3208

Description

Cylindrical form with three fingered laps; oblong projecting handle and circular cover with four sided champered guide for plunger; natural finish.

Details

Descriptive Terms

churns
cookware
ash (wood)
pine (wood)
Tool, Dairy
Churn
Churn

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

25 x 8 (HxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.991

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