SOLD: $500 (without buyer’s premium)
Estimate: $700 – $1,000
Pine, walnut and brass, steel and tin, hinged well cover/housing with steel gears to a pail with self-tipping device, turned walnut outside handle for turning interior steel gears that lifts the water pail, a tipping hook/catch that empties water into interior wood trough and tin spigot, finely dovetailed with symmetrically aligned screws, brass hinged roof, 15″ h, 8 3/8″ w, 7 1/2″ d, (Flo and Howrd Fertig collection).