General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

5

AKA

Querns

Patents

N/A

General Description

A dark brown wooden circular body with a side hole; rectangular iron rod fram attaches to sides extends overhead; long iron screw; circular ribbed stone secured in center of the wodden body and three wooden legs.

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

42.0 cm

Width

32.2 cm

Height

67.5 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Agriculture

Category

Crop processing

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Unknown

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

City

Unknown

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Unknown

Period

Unknown

Canada

Querns were a common farmstead tool in Canada depending on the period and geographic region from the late 1700's to the mid 1930's.

Function

Used in the domestic environment to grind a small quantity of cereal grains into flour for food production.

Technical

Querns have traditionally been used by families to proces some portion of their cereal crop into flour. This one by its materials of construction and technology is quite early, yet querns were still being made and used in the post 1900 period in western Canda by eastern European immigrants. A primitive hand-turned grain mill.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

Mfr's:"None/ X.78.60.256 printed by hand in white ink on the side of the iron handle".

Missing

Nothing missing.

Finish

A dark brown wooden circular body with a side hole; rectangular iron rod fram attaches to sides extends overhead; long iron screw; circular ribbed natural stone inside barrel body and three wooden legs. [one leg is broken off the base]

Decoration

None.