Butter cooler
Category
Historic Services / Food & drink preparation
Date
1850
Materials
Tin and cotton
Measurements
160 x 225 x 225 mm
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Tredegar, Newport
NT 1552707
Summary
Butter cooler. A round portable refrigerator - butter cooler. Cylindrical metal body with a rigid handle on top, and a turned-up lower edge, providing a moat around circumference. The body is covered with fine-knit cotton.
Provenance
Part of the collection on loan to the National Trust from Newport Museum and Galleries
Marks and inscriptions
Front, lower edge: PORTABLE REFRIGERATOR,/ OR/ BUTTER COOLER,/ POUR WATER ON THE TOP UNTIL THE OUTSIDE IS FILLED: IT/ WILL KEEP BUTTER COOL AND HARD IN THE HOTTEST WEATHER/ IT CAN ALSO BE USED FOR PROVISIONS OF ANY DESCRIPTION./ S.B. Inside: Given by:- Mrs Audrey Venour Warren and Mr Wm. Ridge. Conservation Association. Political Agent – Newport. Bovey Tracey. Presented to Leisure Services by:- Councillor L.G. Knight. J.P. 17b, Ridgeway, Newport – Gwent. 5th December 1978.