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<p>[QUOTE="James Conrad, post: 4272999, member: 5066"]Back in the day before indoor plumbing, bucket benches were a BIG DEAL! (not to be confused with water benches). Everything liquid particularly water was conveyed in buckets, cooking water, bathing water, drinking water meant BUCKETS! It only made sense to organize them on benches, most were 2 or 3 tiers of shelves but not all. </p><p>Here are a couple of single shelf 19th-century bucket benches.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]340925[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]340926[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="James Conrad, post: 4272999, member: 5066"]Back in the day before indoor plumbing, bucket benches were a BIG DEAL! (not to be confused with water benches). Everything liquid particularly water was conveyed in buckets, cooking water, bathing water, drinking water meant BUCKETS! It only made sense to organize them on benches, most were 2 or 3 tiers of shelves but not all. Here are a couple of single shelf 19th-century bucket benches. [ATTACH=full]340925[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]340926[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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