DUBLIN, Ireland, March 16 (UPI) -- An antique peat bucket from the time of King George III has sold for more than $246,000 at an auction in Dublin, The Irish Times reported Wednesday. Two well-known ...
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Bruce Bomberger, curator at Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum, says that these two containers are 19th-century paint buckets. The one on the left contains the residue of dried white liquid paint.