Larry & Carole Meeker Kitchen Antiques & Americana

We Can Help You Sell Your Antiques or Collections of Kitchen Related Antiques and Vintage Collectibles.

We deal in all manner of Early American Antiques referred to as Americana. We specialize in things of a mechanical nature, or what we refer to as Americana with a purpose. This includes things like unusual antique and vintage eggbeaters, butter churns, mechanical mixers, apple peelers, can openers, corkscrews, nut crackers, and much more. We like figural cast iron and interesting antique or patented devices from the early American kitchen and home.

Antique Eggbeaters

We are primarily interested in earlier patented devices and models from before the turn of the century that have unusual features. The two patented patented 1887 express eggbeater eggbeaters pictured above, known as the Express and the Loll are prime examples of an eggbeater having dashers or paddles that are very different.

The Express beater (left) was patented in 1887 and utilized a wire "fly-swatter " dasher or paddle that makes a back-and-forth motion. The Loll Beater, pictured at the very top of the page, has an unusual dasher configuration and has revolving cast iron "fingers" that do the egg beating. Unusual egg beaters like these can sell for hundreds and sometimes $1000 or more dollars when promoted properly.

Another example of an unusual patented antique eggbeater because of its form is the right-angle Holt Lyon eggbeater. This side-handle egg beater was manufactured in two different sizes and with several slight variations in the gear wheel and dasher design over the years. The Holt Lyon Co. manufactured a number of different mixers, beaters and churns. Some were hand-held and others antique eggbeater / mixer designed as jar beaters such as their 1 pt. and 1 qt. cream whips and mayonnaise mixers. There are a wealth of other cast iron antique eggbeaters featuring unusual dasher designs that we are interested in, including the one pictured on the left with the slotted dashers. Other good cast iron and early patented eggbeaters include those with names such as: Monroe's Patent, Earle's Patent, The Perfection beater, the Washington Egg Beater, the Manhattan, Minard's Liniment, the Belmont, the Advance, the Hub, the Acme, the Dodge Race Course, and many, many others. All of these beaters are either very early patents, or eggbeaters with odd and unusual dashers, or early versions that were in production for just a very short time.

Click this link if you would like to see past sales results for Antique Eggbeaters. Past Sales Results for other types of Antiques are also linked on the right.

If you have similar antiques you would like to sell, please contact us at LCM@AntiqBuyer.com with details.

Antique Mixers & Churns

Antique butter churns were used to whip cream and butter. They were also used as general purpose kitchen mixers or blenders, and usually had their own container. They can be found in all different sizes and shapes, and some are quite collectible.

One of the earliest types of churns were syllabub churns used for making a dessert made from a mixture of milk or cream, wine or cider, sugar, eggs, nutmeg and cinnamon. These churns were generally designed as a tin cylinder-shaped container with a plunger style dasher having a perforated disk of some sort at the end of the handle. Though they are generally not as valuable as the rare cast iron rotary crank eggbeaters they are a good collectible, particularly if they are patented, unusually large or small, or if they have unusual dasher arrangements.

Back near the turn of the last century was the heyday of what are now considered collectible churns and mixers. As time passes tastes have changed somewhat and today electric mixers and churns are gaining in popularity and value. While we look at and appreciate some of these later kitchen tools, for the most part we limited our interest to earlier mechanical examples, and there is a wonderful and wide variety of them out there to find. On the left are 3 more examples, the S & S, a Holt Lyon on original jar, and a Universal Mayonnaise mixer. There are variations of each of these to be found, and all sell in the $300 - $500 range on a good day.

Click this link if you would like to see past sales results for antique Churns & Mixers we have sold. Past Sales Results for other types of Antiques are also linked on the right.

If you have similar antiques you would like to sell, please contact us at LCM@AntiqBuyer.com with details.

Dazey Butter Churns

Probably the best-known manufacturer or brand of butter churns are the Dazey line of butter churns. They came in different sizes from 1 qt to 8 qt. and with a few variations in the way the Dazey logo is marked on the jar. The 1 quart Dazey #10 is the smallest size in that line---and until the advent of the internet, it was considered very scarce or rare. Now there are numerous Dazey 1 Quarts on internet auctions every week, and their values as well as those of many other previously considered rare kitchen antiques have settled down considerably.

A Special Note: There have been numerous reproduction Dazey Churns introduced to the market in several sizes. Dazey never made a Pint or 1/2 Pint glass butter churn or a salesman sample size glass churn. Those available and offered for sale these days are all reproductions. It is a shame eBay talks about frauds and fakes, buyer protection and all of that and then fails to do anything to actually limit the sales of such frauds. SHAME on them and the dealers who offer them!!!

Other Churns

We can also help you sell other early manufactured patented glass churns that are less frequently found. The 2 Quart Gunn churn with original paper labels pictured above on the left is one example. We are also interested in other earlier manufactured and patented butter churns and mixers like the one here. Jewel Patented Mixer Pictured on the right is the Jewel beater / mixer which was marketed as an eggbeater, cake mixer, cream whipper, and churn. It was manufactured and patented by Juergens Bros. of Minneapolis, Minnesota near the turn of the last century. This particular beater as well as many other early churns and beaters were only produced for a few short years, It still went through design changes so that there are variations that are very hard to find.

Other similar cast iron rotary beaters with glass containers are the Judell, the E-Z Mixer, the Butter-Fly Mixer, the Turn-A-Minit Churn, the Moller Churn, The Globe, either in glass or the cast iron version, and others. We can help you sell these especially if they are patented and dated.

The unusual patented cast iron clamp-on churn pictured here is unlike anything we had ever seen before, with the most prominent features being that it is chain-driven and that it still retains much of its original black japanning and decorative red pin stripping on the body and wheel. This churn was probably made for commercial rather than household usage. The patented feature of this churn was for the air passage that the inventor allowed through the dasher and up through the shaft to incorporate more air into the mixture. This is a feature that was considered important and incorporated into many eggbeater and churn patent designs from this period. This is the kind of churn that still has the potential to sell for 1000.00 or more on a good day.

The wall-mounted swinging pendulum churn pictured here is another example of an unusual and rare butter churn. There are lots of different style wooden churns in the world. This one ranks right up there with the best of them for being one of the most graphic and interesting in design. To operate this one you swing it back and forth along the half circle gear / hanging bracket, which in turn drives the internal dasher. When you think of wooden churns you generally think of the large barrel-style churns that sit in a rocking cradle, but those are much more frequently found. The values of common wooden churns is in the low hundreds if you can find a buyer. While something like this, in this condition would be very desirable and worth $1000.00 or more to the right collector.

If you have an antique kitchenware that is early and unusual, please contact us at LCM@AntiqBuyer.com with as many detail as possible and we will get back to you ASAP.

Antique Kitchenware & Unusual Patented Household Devices

We have bought and sold vintage & antique kitchenware for over 20 years. Over time our tastes and buying habits changed. In the beginning we concentrated on things like vintage Depression glass. Today pink and green glass are one of the furthest things from our mind.

Our focus evolved to patented and mechanical antiques and devices from near the turn of the last century or before. It seems as though just as we were getting the hang of it, the rest of the kitchen collecting crowd moved onward. The current focus has shifted to more modern devices including electric appliances, Pyrex and Tupperware. Our interest in the earlier stuff remains and we have resisted moving with the latest craze and the newer stuff with the exception of the earliest and rarest electrical appliances.

In the left hand column of this page are titles you can click to see other specific types of other antiques we deal in. We have another page devoted entirely antique coffee grinders / mills also. Other related categories are washing & laundry related antiques and ironing related antiques. Both of these areas of interest have their own page that you can access from the column on the left side.

Please visit our sister website www.Patented-Antiques.com where we have listed for sale many kitchen antiques and assorted Americana.

We also like simpler but no less important kitchen related antiques like early cast iron can openers and patented or unusual corkscrews. Devices like early patented lemon squeezers are also sought. As for lemon squeezers it is the patented and mechanical examples that we are most interested in although there are some great glass ones out there as well.

Nutmeg Graters

Patented and mechanical nutmeg graters are another category of antique or vintage kitchen tools that we deal in and like. The one pictured here is made of walnut, cast iron and punched tin, and it is very uncommon. Other nutmeg graters that we would be interested in were patented by Carsley, Sexton, Ames, Davidson, and others. As with most other collectibles there are some very common nutmegs that can be found as well. The MTE, the Edger, and others come to mind.

We are interested in patent models of any nutmeg grater, or other early kitchen devices. Pictured here is a patent model of what would otherwise be a relatively common nutmeg grater. The fact that it is a patent model, meaning that it is the model that was submitted by the inventor to the US patent office in the late 1800's as documented by the patent office tag, makes it a one-of-a-kind example and is what gives this piece its value and its interest to us. We deal in and sell patent models of all sorts of antiques, not just of kitchen items.

If you would like to see examples of past sales results for similar Kitchen antiques like this CLICK HERE or any of the Past Sales archive links on the right.

If you have similar antiques you would like to sell, please contact us at LCM@AntiqBuyer.com with details.

Apple Peeler / Parer

Patented and mechanical apple parers, apple peelers and apple slicers are also of interest. Pictured here is one of the most graphic and mechanically sophisticated examples manufactured. It is known as the Thompson. Another example pictured here is the Lightening, also known as the Quadrant, which is a clamp-on apple parer that also operates on a geared arc. This apple parer / peeler comes in several variations, any of which would be of interest. Other apple peelers, parers and slicers that are considered rare and we can help you sell are the Sun, Tripp Bros., the Bergner, Pratt's Patent, the Buchi, the Star, the Climax, and many others. There are also many common peelers / parers around that rarely sell for more than $20.00.

Click this link if you would like to see past sales results for Antique Apple Peelers and related. Past Sales Results for other types of Antiques are linked on the right.

If you have similar antiques you would like to sell, please contact us at LCM@AntiqBuyer.com with details.

Misc. Antique Kitchen Devices

Two other categories of collectible kitchen antiques that we deal in are raisin seeders, like the one pictured here, and cherry pitters. These were intended to be labor-saving devices, although many were of dubious merit. It is the wilder ideas that were in production for the shortest period of time and those that did not go over well with the buying public that we are most interested in. Common examples are worth little and little in demand.

Unusual milkshake mixers and other soda fountain and ice cream related antiques are also items we actively deal in. The milkshake or malt mixer pictured here is an early electric one, but what we are most interested in are mechanical non-electric models such as the Coles Manufacturing Co. rotary shake maker. There is also another non-electric mechanical version made by the Enterprise Manufacturing Co. as well as others.

The above are examples of the caliber, condition and quality of American kitchen antiques that we are primarily interested in buying.

If you have quality antiques similar to those that you see on these pages that you want to sell, please contact us at LCM@AntiqBuyer.com providing as many details as possible. Thank you!!

To see other antique or vintage Americana that we currently have for sale please go to our sister site at www.Patented-Antiques.com

Thank you!!
Larry & Carole

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