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What is a firkin bucket?
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A firkin bucket is a vessel traditionally used to store liquids, fish or butter. Artisans typically used wood to produce firkin buckets, and some examples have decorative painted finishes. You'll find a range of antique and vintage buckets on 1stDibs.
1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
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Antique Pine Bentwood Farmhouse Firkin Lidded Bucket Basket Bail 11"
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique pine farmhouse firkin / sugar storage bucket with paneled sides, banded lid and rotating
Category
Early 20th Century Country Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bentwood, Pine
$240 Sale Price
20% Off
1920s Hand-Crafted, Painted and Decorated Tripod Firkin or Sewing Bucket
Located in Germantown, MD
A 1920s hand-crafted, hand painted and Decorated Tripod Firkin or Sewing Bucket with handle.
Newer
Category
Early 20th Century American Edwardian Decorative Baskets
Materials
Wood, Paint
$656 Sale Price
25% Off
Antique Painted Primitive Covered & Finger Staved Sugar Pail, Bucket or Firkin
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This folk art finger staved covered sugar bucket or firkin shows no indication of a specific maker
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Primitive Decorative Bowls
Materials
Brass
Early 19th Century Grain Painted Firkin
Located in Nantucket, MA
Early 19th Century Grain Painted Firkin, possibly late 18th Century, a hand crafted firkin or
Category
Antique Early 19th Century American Folk Art Painted Furniture
Materials
Pine
Late 19th C Authentic Shaker Wood Bucket. Pennsylvania, Circa 1885. All Original
Located in Incline Village, NV
done later and not original to the piece. Also, calling these wooden buckets 'firkins" has become
Category
Antique 1880s Folk Art Antiquities
Materials
Wood, Bentwood
