El2—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 7,1980
Dairying’s
Past
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screw-on tin lid and some
more unique types have
wooded hand-built lids.
These too come in various
sizes, ranging from one
quart to two gallons m
capacity.
All sizes and types of milk
containers and equipment
are sought by collectors.
The painting and
decorating of milk cans has
opened an entirely new field
of American art. Hand
painted milk can can be
found anywhere from the
base of a rural mail box to
the umbrella stand in the
foyer of a metropolitan
apartment.
Smaller milk can;?, such as
those made of tin or agate,
cream separators and even
small containers that held
cream for dinner table use
are choice items of dairy
antiques.
Dairying’s discards of the
past now relished by
collectors are not limited to
those associated just with
milk, either.
Since butter was among
the earlier dairy products to
be marketed, this opens a
whole new area of collecting.
Collectibles can range
from the small dove-tailed
molds used to form the
blocks of butter to the hand
carved prints used to
decorate the blocks. These
can vary from the popular
sheaf of wheat to the more
decorative Pennsylvania
Dutch designs.
Even more primitive in
the field of butter antiques is
the small round tub hand
carved and built right on the
farm. Among the more
unusual are those containing
designs carved into the
handles of the tub.
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Gallon milk pails were a popular size for keeping milk cool first in the spring
house and later in the ice box. Pail at left is made of agate while that at right is
tin.
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Dove-tailed wooden butter mold was hand-crafted right on the farm where it
was used. Dough box represents kitchen item in which many dairy products
were used to mix and prepare delicious food items.
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rejects cold and dampness from
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