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From: "Stew Watson" <>
Subject: Re: Firken
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 10:35:49 +1300


A bit of history for those interested:

Admiralty Casks (sizes & contents)
Leager 59in x 38in 164gals
Butt 53in x 33in 110gals *(108gals)
Puncheon 41.5in x 30in 72gals *
Hogshead 37in x 28in 54gals *
Barrel 31.5in x 25.5in 36gals *
Half Hogshead 28in x 22.5in 27gals
Kilderskin 22in x 19.75 18gals *
Firken 22in x 17in 12gals *

A fair quantity of butter to nick!! Those with * also old beer
measure for those of us who can still remember it being delivered in wooden
barrels.

Stew WATSON
King Country - New Zealand

----- Original Message -----
From: Rice Witzerman <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: Firken


> Beryl Stevenson wrote:
> >
> > An ancestor was sent out to Australia for stealing a "Firken " of
> butter,
> > any idea what a firken of butter would be. Beryl Tasmania
>
> A small cask - about a quarter the size of a standard barrel.
>
> Vivien
>
>

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