Antique Copper Milk Can
2109-19417
(Click the Item No. for an inquiry)19 x 10 in diameter
Price: $498.00
Location : Baton Rouge
Back in the day dairies needed a durable container to take the milk from the farms to the milk processors, and many were made from copper with tin linings such as this example. With the price of copper skyrocketing since then, other methods have taken over, but it's still marvelous to imagine a horse-drawn carriage full of these cans heading to the marketplace in days of old...
Circa 1850s.
Measures 19 x 10 in diameter.
