Hard 2 Find Vintage 1930s Cast Iron Cape Cod Massachusetts Windmill Doorstop Made by the National Foundry

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This is a Great Looking and Quite Hard to Find Model Authentic Vintage 1930s Cast Iron Doorstop. It is American … Read more This is a Great Looking and Quite Hard to Find Model Authentic Vintage 1930s Cast Iron Doorstop. It is American in Origin and it is Not Signed but my Research Confirms that This Doorstop was Produced as a Model "#10 Cape Cod Windmill" by the Well Documented "National Foundry " of Whitman Massachusetts. It Still Retains its All Original Hand Oil Painted Features that are in Exceptionally Good Condition - Greats Colors & Patina - Displays Beautifully. No Damage - No Repairs.
It Measures Overall Approx 7 inches Tall x 7 inches Long x 2 5/8 inches Wide - Deep at Base.

Cape Cod Had an Assortment of Windmills Over the Years - Some are Still in Existence Today.

With its fairly consistent ocean breezes, Cape Cod was an ideal location to erect windmills. The wind-powered mills ground corn into flour and corn meal, or, to be exact, wind-powered the sails, which in turn rotated the millstones, which ground the corn. Corn flour and corn meal were dietary staples in colonial times and a part of almost every meal.

The windmills also helped to provide salt, which, prior to refrigeration, was the best means to preserve food, especially meat and fish. Cape Codders could not only preserve food for their own use throughout the winter, but the salted fish also became a primary export, and thus a main source of income

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