Raised from sheet copper over a stake and brazed at one seam, which you can find by running a finger inside. The swan neck was cut off before it came to us.
Copper is not decoration here: it takes the sulphur out of the spirit as it passes. Worthy Park replaced it and kept it in a shed for sixty years before it reached the register.
Accession
1979.5
Made
c. 1910
Maker
Unrecorded coppersmith, Kingston
Came from
Worthy Park, St Catherine
Material
Copper, brazed
Size
840 mm across the base
Kept
The machine floor
Out on the floor, today, freeIt is in The machine floor. Walk in during opening hours and look at it. Nobody will ask you for a ticket or a reason.