What are these metal holders?
I love this picture I snapped of a junk planter at last years Northwest Flower and Garden Show... but can someone tell me what these metal holders are?
3 answers
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These look like some part of a farm equipment seeder,maybe.
Jan Nelson
on Apr 08, 2015
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cans???
Linda Vellucci
on Apr 08, 2015
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Those are cistern cups. In the midwest, the farms used to have the roof water collected for the farm watering and etc. the cistern was a huge dry well dug under the house. Ours was under the day kitchen 10 ft wide and 22 ft deep. The water would run from the gutters to the cistern. There we would turn the cistern cup wheel where these cups went up and over in a line and dumped water over into a bucket or trough. I have many of them hanging on our farm with flowers and etc. in them. Old tale is hang them in groups of three for good luck. Hope you enjoy them. Not many of them left in the world.
Eli mackewich
on Apr 09, 2015
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