FREE: Antique Cream Milk Separator Late 1800's Early 1900's Farming Dairy

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Made of tin this is an awesome piece of history and a great decoration in your kitchen too!
A BIT OF HISTORY- *In the late 1800's milk fat or cream was the main reason for milking cows. Cream contained most of the energy of the milk and was used to make butter. Butter also was less perishable than fluid milk. The separated skim milk was commonly used to feed livestock. Thus before one could make butter the cream needed to be concentrated or separated from the milk.* One of the earliest ways to separate the cream from the skim was to pour the milk into shallow pans, 2 to 4 inches deep, called setting pans. The pans were placed in a cool, clean room and after letting it sit for 36 hours or more the cream was skimmed off the top using cream skimmers like these.*

This one is in very good shape for over 100 years old.
Many of the hole patterns were different and decorative. Measures about 6x6 inches. Shipped padded and carefully!

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