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1800-1850
GUSN-2143
Blue painted cylindrical form with fitted cover, wooden swing handle; of stave construction held by wood hoops with tapering laps secured with brass tacks.
buckets (vessels)
cookware
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
Pine
Painted
FIRKIN
Hand-lettered label in ink and paint on cardboard, front side, secured with iron tacks: ""BUCKWEAT"" [sic].
Used At House of the Seven Gables (Salem, Mass.),
1991.154A,B
Unknown
12 1/5 (H), 12 1/2 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.154AB
Massachusetts (United States)
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