"Vintage Egg Preserving Pail/Bucket with Wire Liner and Lid"
Product Description A vintage Egg Preserving pail or bucket. Made of galvanised steel it is complete with the original wire liner and lid. On the front it is marked with ‘TW Egg Preserving Pail 100′ A great gift for someone who has hens, or a Kitchenalia item useful item for storing vegetables, fruit etc. size 35cm diameter across the top and 28cm high."
£55. Not bad for an old bucket! And your looks in much better condition.
I think I have two of them. They were bought at a car boot sale abt. 20 years ago. They are galavanised and remind me of the waterglass process my parents applied to spare eggs in the annexe off my bedroom, and the laying down of apples for the winter under newspaper sheeting in old wooden ammunition boxes bought from army surplus. We kept bees, too, and preserved fruit in Kilner jars.
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I can't see the bottle of beer (which is odd for me), but I am most intrigued by the metal bucket labelled "T. W EGG RESERVE".
What the Dickens is that?
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It is a bucket from the 1950s in which eggs would be put to preserve them by sealing the shells with waterglass.
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Well, goodness gravy.
I tried to find the pun, couldn't see it, so in desperation Googled it.
Waterglass for preserving eggs.
How To Preserve Eggs In Water Glass (Sodium Silicate).
Wikipedia.
Fancy that. I never knew. Golly gosh.
Thank you.
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Presumably, it is one of these?
http://www.ashbyinteriors.co.uk/product/vintage-egg-preserving-pailbucket-with-wire-liner-and-lid/
"Vintage Egg Preserving Pail/Bucket with Wire Liner and Lid"
Product Description
A vintage Egg Preserving pail or bucket.
Made of galvanised steel it is complete with the original wire liner and lid.
On the front it is marked with ‘TW Egg Preserving Pail 100′
A great gift for someone who has hens, or a Kitchenalia item useful item for storing vegetables, fruit etc.
size 35cm diameter across the top and 28cm high."
£55. Not bad for an old bucket! And your looks in much better condition.
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I think I have two of them. They were bought at a car boot sale abt. 20 years ago. They are galavanised and remind me of the waterglass process my parents applied to spare eggs in the annexe off my bedroom, and the laying down of apples for the winter under newspaper sheeting in old wooden ammunition boxes bought from army surplus. We kept bees, too, and preserved fruit in Kilner jars.