AAFA EARLY ANTIQUE FOLK ART ORIGINAL BLUE PAINTED WOOD PANTRY BOX. Up for sale is this wonderful light blue-grey firkin!! Some people call them a flour buckets, sugar buckets, pales or pantry boxes!! Wow, look at the wonderful soft color on this one!!! It has what appears to be its original paint. This firkin is a nice large sized firkin with a wood handle with a wood knobbin where the handle connects to the firkin. It has two bands, one at the top and one at the bottom. Both are finger-ended bands. They have nailed the ends. On the lid, the band has a staple and a nail as you can see in the close-up pictures. The staple holds a crack together in the edge of the lid. Both bands are just a little loose and wiggle if you move them but they don’t shift up and down. The vertical staves are fairly tight on this firkin. There are some chips in the bottom of the staves in a couple of places. This firkin is also very clean inside. It’s lid matches but has spots, grunge and patina on it as you can see in the pictures. You can also see that there is a crack in the lid. It’s not loose but there is a crack and on the top there’s a chunk of wood missing. On the inside of the lid you can see the stenciled letters W G YOUNG. This firkin is a nice soft blue-grey color and the paint is dry and patina-ed. It appears to be the original paint. You can see wood under the color here and there as well as some darker areas. This firkin measures 9.125″ in diameter at the top and 10″ in diameter at the bottom. It’s about 9.75 high and weighs about 3 lbs. It has some fading, crackling paint, edgewear, divots in the surface, streaks, paint loss, wood missing here and there, streaks, paint loss, paint chips. The condition of this is exactly what you want to see in old true antiques!! Please look at the photos for a more accurate description and detail and ask lots of questions if needed. We regularly put up new items so check out our other items. We will do our best to answer your questions. We will handle them on a case-by-case basis. We will do the same. We couldn’t sell anything if it wasn’t for you and the time you have taken to spend looking at our items. As a very small business we strive to keep you as our customer! We GUARANTEE that your item(s) will be received as described. We work hard to describe them correctly and in detail (note that the pictures are part of the description) with all flaws (if any) exposed. The item “EARLY AAFA ANTIQUE PRIMITIVE FOLK ART FIRKIN WOOD BUCKET ORIGINAL PAINT BLUE” is in sale since Wednesday, April 11, 2018. This item is in the category “Antiques\Mercantile, Trades & Factories\Other Mercantile Antiques”. The seller is “americas-place” and is located in Riverside, California. This item can be shipped to United States.
