Betty Bought some Butter... She needs a Butter Churn
For home, shop, hospitality setting - an accent piece to evoke an age gone by.
Placed
in your home - perfect for your Victorian and Edwardian interior - an
antique butter churn is your quirky cupboard, secret biscuit store,
unusual shelf, fun holder for dried flowers, ornamental object, and
always a real contraption conversation piece!
In a shop or
restaurant, this domestic wooden barrel - with working handle and
turning paddle - evokes history, foods, aromas. The times intimately
known by our great-grandmothers, labouring to create the ordinary foods
of everyday we now take for granted.
Many forms of antique butter
churns exist today - Norman churn, barrel box, earthenware crock - but
all perform the same simple function: to make butter. We confess, we
haven't tried it. We just used this lovely piece to hide the posh
biscuits.
Wherever you place it, you have a little bit of history. And a little bit of quirky love. From grandmother to us.
Cleaned,
treated for woodworm - historic holes scattered as in photographs - and
oiled. Simple materials, honestly made. Structurally sound, metal bands
intact, wood firm, handle lovely and firm with a wobbly end.
Height 52cm
Depth, from rear to tip of handle 52cm
Width, from side to side, 43cm
On sale, Black phone vintage Etsy shop £145 xx
