Butter stamp
Category
Historic Services / Food & drink preparation
Date
1770 - 1800
Materials
Beech
Measurements
80 x 120 x 120 mm
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Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion
NT 549250
Summary
An elm butter stamp, with discoidal head, and central handle. Top of head carved with two flower heads and foliage, with peripheral fluted ring. Inscribed - Butter press late 18th c or 1800 Beech 25/- C Dewormed (label) 1770 - 1800 (circa)
Provenance
An item from the Pamela Ward Collection, left to the National Trust in the will of Miss Ward in 1994
Marks and inscriptions
Butter press late 18th c or 1800 Beech 25/- C Dewormed (label)