Help identifyiing this container jug thing

This has been in the house I lived from I was young in the 1990's

I took it with me when I left the house I had been living in. I don't know what I should do with it.

It's a container made from wood) possibly oak) and seems sort of old. It's in the style of a barrel and the inside is like a white sort of ceramic.
The engraving on the shield on the front is a letter A in old style.

 

It looks to me like an ice bucket.

 

Interesting because there was a glass decanter beside it. I think your right, I just Googled wooden ice bucket and a lot of stuff like it came up thanks.

 

Biscuit barrel...

~Cheryl

 

If it's made of wood, then it is for honey

 

well i'll be....learn sumpthin new every day here....

1920's biscuit barrel.....tiger oak...silver plated...

 

I see lots of those. There's also variations that are tea caddies.