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Antiques! => Antique Questions Forum => Topic started by: nicole on February 22, 2005, 08:52:29 PM
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We recently purchased an antique tagged "flour box with a dough bin", and are trying to learn more about what this piece is, how and where it was used, and what time period it is likely from. We've been able to find a good number of dough boxes online - trapezoidial wooden boxes similar to ours - which were used to store dough while it "rose"... Our box is large - about 4' in length and 3' high, and has a hinged open-top, and the dough box fits inside the larger "flour box", on a wooden rail/track where it can slide from side to side. We have not been able to find anything online similar to ours that's named "flour box" or "flour bin" or "flour chest"....So , is it in fact a flour box? Is it early American? Any info would be most appreciated...Thnx.
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Hi..........Sounds right, but hard to say without a photo. Flour bins, grain bins usually had a slanted hinged top. Used in the kitchen obwiously. A meal bin would be considered to have a flat top. General stores also used them for storage. They are part of the "primative" line and it could date from 1800-1870..........
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