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Pappy said:
PS, Nancy. If yours is a one gallon jug, it's listed on Esty for $135.00. These crocks can demand some good prices. I've seen them on Antiques Roadshow for hundreds of dollars.
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Thanks for all the information, Pappy. That was interesting. The crock looks to be about a half gallon at most. But perfect condition. I don't think it was ever used.
 

New to this site trying to figure out how everything works..So I'm jumpin' in with both feet...This is a picture I found when my Daddy passed, I still don't know the connection to our family but I love it. I Call it Back in the Holler.Back in the holler.jpg
 
Seeker, welcome, and jump right in. Thanks for the picture. I like it too. Another old one where no one is smiling. Don't you wish folks would have written on the backs of pictures.
 
Hundreds of years ago, many farmers would seal their barns with linseed oil, which is an orange-colored oil derived from the seeds of the flax plant. To this oil, they would add a variety of things, most often milk and lime, but also ferrous oxide, or rust. ... It turned the mixture red in color.[COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.541176)]Sep 16, 2008[/COLOR]
 

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Pappy said:
Hundreds of years ago, many farmers would seal their barns with linseed oil, which is an orange-colored oil derived from the seeds of the flax plant. To this oil, they would add a variety of things, most often milk and lime, but also ferrous oxide, or rust. ... It turned the mixture red in color.[COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.541176)]Sep 16, 2008[/COLOR]
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I love old barns.
 
My grandpa's farm in Arkansas had an outhouse, as did my other grandpa in Oklahoma. I was always afraid there were snakes in there when I was a little kid. They didn't have indoor plumbing at all, so when we took a bath it was in a large tub out on the back porch. I was quite horrified. I always wondered if the grownups did the same thing, but never knew.

I was always glad to go back home from a trip to see them. Even though we were poor, at least we had indoor plumbing.
 
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Brings back a memory. When I was a teenager, my father bought an old windmill. We lived in the suburbs, but had some land in the country at that time. I guess he was planning on putting it up out there. He laid the top part out on the lawn and it took up half the yard. Don't know what ever happened to it. He was always planning something, always enthusiastic about some future project.
 
Christmas scarecrows! :) Do those bags say British Sprouts? Would that be like Brussels Sprouts? Looks like cabbage to me????
 

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