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SKINNER CATALOGUE: An old wooden, tapered dash butter churn from the Heywood Farm in South Amherst, Massachusetts. Probably latter half 18th century. Pine staves, except one, 8 1/2 inches longer than the rest, ash, upper end shaped with a draw shave to form a handle. Two bottom hoops are original, hickory with the bark still on, notched. Single middle and top hoops are later, 1 3/8 inches wide, ash, lapped and held with wooden pegs, later reenforced with iron nails, one hand wrought. At the very top and forming a 1 5/8 inch extension above the staves is an ash hoop lapped and held with iron nails. The whole is painted the old dull brick red, now largely worn off. The cover is of oak, flat on one edge, with a smaller, later reenforcement of pine nailed on. Plunger handle is of ash, rounded with a draw shave, and extending through 6 3/4 inch, pine, half jointed paddles. One paddle has a half inch hole bored at each end to facilitate the churning, the other has one hole started and apparently not finished because the paddle started to crack. Diam. bottom 11 1/2" top 8". Height 19 5/8". Property of Mr. Paul L. Brougham of Holyoke, and loaned by him to the museum. Cat. 11/24/1936.
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