Two funnels, close tasks
A familiar form can hold different uses.
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In the inventory of 2016, the L63 funnel appears linked to the transfer of wine; the L18, to the passage of liquids between containers. Both of them are zinc foil. Reading the registered function avoids guessing the use only by form. Compare them to the muffler funnel: a similar object can enter another task.
The L63 is 17 cm tall and 17,7 in diameter; the L18 is smaller, 12,5 cm tall and ten cm in diameter. The inventory associates the first to Álvaro Magalhães, from the place of Devesa, Basto, and the second to Maria da Conceição Magalhães, no Arco de Baúlhe. These are data from registered owners, not indications of who manufactured the parts.
Measures, material and function make the comparison more concrete. A larger diameter does not in itself reveal how many liters passed through the funnel or what work was done in a given house.
Transfer, measure and serve
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A funnel also made bags →Measure and transport wine
Carry and measure in the same container →Serve olive oil at the table
The olive oil also had tablepiece →Transport fuel for lighting
Two containers to carry the light →
Source and context
Basto Land Museum — Latoaria in Cabeceiras de Basto V (18/01/2016), L63, L18 and MSRM88
Accessed: . Editorial summary; the date of consultation is not the date of the facts.