Antique Sussex Fair Dairy Cream Milk Pail - Brixton London Gargoyle sign dated 1978 on the original

dated 1978 on the original label

including enamel loss

This miniature figure displays the distinctive craftsmanship associated with Horne’s work

A mid-20th-century hammered copper tray by Harold Holmes

It carries faint size markings and numbers

Antique Sussex Fair Dairy Cream Milk Pail - Brixton London Gargoyle sign dated 1978 on the originalAntique Sussex Fair Dairy Cream Milk Pail Brixton London A charming small antique dairy pail or cream can, engraved to the body: 126 Lyham Road, Brixton. The lid is also engraved Sussex Fair Dairy, and the brass fitting is marked Hanamada Registered. This is a lovely piece of London dairy history. Pails of this type were used for storing, carrying and pouring milk or cream, often by dairies delivering to local households. Smaller lidded examples like