A turned sycamore butter bowl or mealey beg, 19th century

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A turned sycamore butter bowl or mealey beg, 19th century
the cover with incised banding to the sides -- 6¼in. (16cm.) diameter; a sycamore bowl with triple line banding -- 7½in. (19cm.) diameter; a sycamore mortar and pestle; a sycamore skimmer -- 9in. (23cm.) diameter; and a sycamore screw action nut cracker (5)

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Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Edward Pinto, Treen and other Wooden Bygones, Bell & Hyman, 1985.
Plate 96, item M.
The name 'mealey beg' derived from the Isle of Man, however they were commonly used among shepherd's, fishermen and dairy farmers throughout the British Isles. They were used for taking samples of butter to market and butter rations out into the field, which, on occasion would be buried to keep cool.

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