Antique Wooden Feliciana Plantation Dough-Box
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$300.00
$300.00
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Rare Antique Plantation Wooden Dough Box -- attractive, functional, complete and in GREAT condition. (See HISTORY info below.)
This piece is in original condition as near as we can tell and that condition is VERY good, although it may have acquired a coating of stain or 2 over the years. All of the unions and legs are AOK, as is the fitting of the top. The screws holding the top together are OLD wide "flat-head" types -- so this well pre-dates any of the modern screws, especially "Phillips" type screws.
The interior of the Dough Box shows some use through the years but is all as it should be. The photos are provided to demonstrate the A-1 condition of this old Dough Box, which was removed from the loft of a Neville Plantation barn I renovated out near Port Hudson, LA --which I acquired in the 1990's. I have dusted it off but have not attempted to seriously clean it.
100% all original. Opens and closes JUST as it should. Nothing in "loose" or "wobbly" or weird. It is "right," as they say in the trade. I am unsure of the type wood used in the construction but we would guess pine -- but that's a total guess.
Price: $300
MEASUREMENTS: 24" tall and the top is 26" by 28 1/2". The box beneath the stable and well-made top slants inward--as noted in the pictures--but reduces to 19 1/2" x 14 1/2" at the bottom of the box.
HISTORY: The barn in which this box was found is on land which was once Neville Plantation adjacent to Port Hudson, very near the Civil War battle-siege site. Neville Plantation burned in the late 1920's and I speculate this Dough Box hails from some era before that time. Baking used to be an important weekly task in many households. Bread was a staple food, of course, so people depended on having plenty of it on a regular basis -- especially where big farm or active plantation families had farmhands or servants to feed as well.
A family of ten needed "three pecks" of flour for a week's bread, according to published sources -- including Eliza Acton's advice from around 1850. Three pecks is roughly 27 litres or 7 US gallons, so we're thinking big sacks of flour were needed for many households. The flour was tipped into a dough box or trough to start bread-making. It held the flour more tidily than a bowl. When--as here-- the trough was on legs it didn't need to sit on a table, and could be moved to a part of the room where the temperature was right. Thereafter--once the flour was removed--the top of the Dough Box could be used for kneading and rolling, etc.
VERY COLLECTIBLE or would make a great accent piece with any decor.
This piece is in original condition as near as we can tell and that condition is VERY good, although it may have acquired a coating of stain or 2 over the years. All of the unions and legs are AOK, as is the fitting of the top. The screws holding the top together are OLD wide "flat-head" types -- so this well pre-dates any of the modern screws, especially "Phillips" type screws.
The interior of the Dough Box shows some use through the years but is all as it should be. The photos are provided to demonstrate the A-1 condition of this old Dough Box, which was removed from the loft of a Neville Plantation barn I renovated out near Port Hudson, LA --which I acquired in the 1990's. I have dusted it off but have not attempted to seriously clean it.
100% all original. Opens and closes JUST as it should. Nothing in "loose" or "wobbly" or weird. It is "right," as they say in the trade. I am unsure of the type wood used in the construction but we would guess pine -- but that's a total guess.
Price: $300
MEASUREMENTS: 24" tall and the top is 26" by 28 1/2". The box beneath the stable and well-made top slants inward--as noted in the pictures--but reduces to 19 1/2" x 14 1/2" at the bottom of the box.
HISTORY: The barn in which this box was found is on land which was once Neville Plantation adjacent to Port Hudson, very near the Civil War battle-siege site. Neville Plantation burned in the late 1920's and I speculate this Dough Box hails from some era before that time. Baking used to be an important weekly task in many households. Bread was a staple food, of course, so people depended on having plenty of it on a regular basis -- especially where big farm or active plantation families had farmhands or servants to feed as well.
A family of ten needed "three pecks" of flour for a week's bread, according to published sources -- including Eliza Acton's advice from around 1850. Three pecks is roughly 27 litres or 7 US gallons, so we're thinking big sacks of flour were needed for many households. The flour was tipped into a dough box or trough to start bread-making. It held the flour more tidily than a bowl. When--as here-- the trough was on legs it didn't need to sit on a table, and could be moved to a part of the room where the temperature was right. Thereafter--once the flour was removed--the top of the Dough Box could be used for kneading and rolling, etc.
VERY COLLECTIBLE or would make a great accent piece with any decor.