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    Posted 1 year ago

    Laurabelle61
    (76 items)

    I’ve had this kicking around for 30+ years. I vaguely recall the gentleman I purchased it from telling me it was for tobacco. I haven’t been able to locate it to verify this. It has a number 14 and the words wooden bucket on it and it’s approximately 5“ x 4 1/2 inches. Love to hear if anybody can identify.

    Update: I stopped searching for tobacco buckets and just went with 14 wooden bucket. Had some luck. I guess the man I purchased it from may have purchased it with tobacco in it, but I don’t believe it’s a tobacco related product. I have located a couple that are very similar and they are salesman sample wooden buckets.. ANTIQUE PRIMITIVE MINI WOOD BUCKET 14 JAMES LIBBY E. MURDOCK CO. WINCHENDON MASS . Still trying to find the exact label and date it was manufactured.
    The E. Murdock & Company was founded by Elisha Murdock in 1834. Murdock was from Winchendon, Massachusetts, a small town outside of Boston. He was the third child of Ephraim and Zibah Murdock. He was born on August 27, 1802.
    Elisha Murdock's family had many industrial and educational pursuits. His father, a builder of sleighs, founded the first public high school in Winchendon, Massachusetts in 1843. Eventually his son Ephraim Murdock, Jr. established in 1887 a self-supporting high school in Winchendon named The Murdock School, was considered one of the best equipped high schools in Massachusetts and in 1961, the school became known as "The Murdock Junior High School.
    Elisha worked in the manufacturing of tubs, pails, and other wood wares using machinery invented by his father. For 100 years, from 1831-1931, Winchendon was known as "The Home of Woodenware Manufacture."
    In 1840, Murdock's first woodenware factory in Winchendon burned. In 1895, a second fire destroyed an even larger plant. After the 1895 fire, however, a new factory was erected and a variety of products were offered.
    Murdock also established a plant in Boston, in the industrial area of Market Street. The Boston plant was listed in the city directory until 1882. In 1882, Elisha Murdock died and the company's leadership was handed over to William and Elisha Whitney.
    From 1883-1929, little is recorded about E. Murdock & Company. In 1929, Murdock's Company, Keene Woodworking Company in New Hampshire and the West Swanzey plant, merged to form the New England Woodenware Corporation. However, the Winchendon unit was still supervised by Elisha and William Whitney, with 225 employees. According to Murdock's great-great-granddaughter Margaret Urquhart, the company moved from Massachusetts to New Hampshire in 1958, where it became a personal holding company with no employees. In 1951, the company stopped producing wooden artifacts and began producing boxes. In 1982, the company moved from Winchendon to Gardener, Massachusetts.The

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    1. jscott0363 jscott0363, 1 year ago
      Very cool! Would it have been the ice bucket of yesteryear? Just a guess.
    2. Laurabelle61 Laurabelle61, 1 year ago
      Thank you, Jscotto! I’ve updated some info I found on the bucket .. it seems this little one may have been a salesman sample. Multi functional… it would make a cute little ice bucket for a couple of drinks.:)

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