Re: Buckets with ears ...

[Peter Keel]

Hello

Wow, what a wonderful job you did. I just learned a lot about something I
never before even cared about. This is exactly what I love about this 
mailinglist. So here come my comments somewhat unrelated to history: 

* on the Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 09:43:57PM +0100, Cezary Wyszynski wrote:
> 7. most buckets which have iron rings comes with iron handles and iron ears 
> (since those -- well and canon -- buckets has to be very strong)

Well, did you try to hang a bucket with a stick onto a rope or onto a 
hook on a connon? Doesn't work. 

So it seems that metal handles were mainly used where necessary, in that
case whenever you had to hang a bucket to some sole hook or rope. I doubt
that this has something to do with strength. 

Also, they probably thought having a bucket with ears where you can
put a stick trough (or remove it if not used) is quite useful. I found
this pretty enlightening: http://kvast.blakulla.net/patrik/bilder/14651475.jpg

It might even be possible that most buckets had no fixed handles at
all -- which would change the view on how a bucket was looked at 
considerably from our view. Every bucket would be a basin as well.

As said, no historical facts here, only logic & speculation ;)

Cheers
Seegras
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