Name/Title
Crate, MilkDescription
1a: Milk crate, rectangle, painted cream, three slats with othing on the base. Wooden with metal corner pieces, which are secured with nails, the majority on the base plate.
On the interior, there are our corner pieces, for stacking purposes and a grid pattern of twisted metal bars half way down the crate, with gaps for 5 x 6 bottles. On the base, metal bars in couples to prevent the bottles falling through, 5 sets of 2.
Stamped into both sides, along the length:
United Dairy System
NC 944
and stencilled in brown/black ink, under this:
D.M. WATT & SONS
On the shorter sides the stencilling reads:
WATT & SONS
contains:
1b-w:22 glass bottles.
5.3 high x 2.4 dia.
embossed on front: Half Pint Liquid X above an oval shape containing:
D.M.WATT & SONS
W
Still River
at the base rim: registered 195
on the back: MTC3603