Numero oggetto
93/76
Descrizione
This rectangular hamper is a picnic basket or lunch basket, and is typical of the type used by farm workers throughout the country. It is made from whole and split buff willow. The lid is fixed on with wire and can be fastened at the front with a leather strap. There is a handle on the lid which has been repaired with wire. The basket was used by the donor's father and other members of the family, probably as far back as the 1850s, for taking food into the fields.
Descrizione fisica
1 basket: buff willow; good condition
Storico archivio
MERL ‘Stakeholders’ recording form, December 2013 – Object number: 93/76 // Name of recorder: Hilary Burns and Sarah Le Breton // General construction method: Stake and strand // Overall shape: Rectangular // Materials: Buff willow // Base: 5 bottom sticks. 29 side stakes. // Sides: Split and shaved willow side weaving. Staked up by inserting side stakes on the long side through into base sticks. Soft corners. 2 rows of 3-rod waling. Slewed split willow. 2 rows of 3-rod waling below border. // Border: Square border – 4 rod behind 2. // Handles: 2 rods cranked handle. // Lid: 7 sticks. Slewed whole rods with gap for leather strap. Discontinuous border on short sides. // Dimensions: Top 11.5” x 7” (length x width). Base 10” x 5” (length x width). Height with lid 6.5” // Anything else to note about this particular basket: English willow techniques, standard construction. // Anything else to note about this type of basket: This is an example of a typical lunch basket used by farm workers. Example of this type in many areas of the country., MERL 'Handwritten accession' form (Museum of English Rural Life) – ‘Associated information: This basket was used by the donor’s father and other members of the family for taking food to the fields. The donor’s great grandfather John Lockwood farmed in the Darlington area until 1870. // It was suggested by another visitor that this basket could be a pigeon basket, used for sending 2 pigeons by train to a destination where they would be released to fly home.’
Data
1825-01-01 - 1874-12-31
Periodo di produzione
Mid-nineteenth century
Nome oggetto
Materiale
Tecnica
Documento esterno
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