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 Antique Kitchenware  & Americana

Eggbeaters / Mixers / Churns / Choppers & More.

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

Eggbeaters

 express2.jpg (12886 bytes)We deal in buy, and sell all manner of  Early American Antiques referred to as Americana.  This includes  unusual antique and vintage eggbeaters, butter churns, and other interesting antique or patented devices from the early American kitchen and home.    

The information and pictures on this page should give you a pretty good idea of the kinds of antique kitchenware, eggbeaters, churns and mixers that we deal in and can help you sell. 

For example, in antique eggbeaters this almost always equates to cast iron examples where the dashers are very different from those that you see in your drawer today, or from those you will see down at the local antique mall with stainless dashers and red or green wooden or plastic handles.  We are primarily interested in ealier models patented near the turn of the century that have unusual features or ideas. 

The two patented eggbeaters that are pictured above, known as the Express and the Loll, are prime examples of what we mean by having dashers or paddles that are very different from those that you typically see. 

The Express beater, which was patented in 1887, 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 many hundreds of dollars when promoted properly.  They are not selling for as much as they once did during the hey day, but they are still good pieces. 

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Another example of an unusual patented antique eggbeater  because of its form is the right-angle Holt Lyon eggbeater pictured here.  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 egg_wh.jpg (16813 bytes)designed as jar beaters such as their 1 pt. and 1 qt. cream whips and mayonnaise mixers.  Many of them are collectible and we would be interested in helping you sell any of these or similar butter churns or mixers that you might have.

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.  

If you have an unusual antique eggbeater you would like to sell, please contact us at LCM@AntiqBuyer.com with details. 

Mixers & Churns

Antique butter churns were used to whip cream and butter.   They were also used as general purposebigsyl.jpg (19634 bytes) kitchen mixers or blenders, and usually had their own container. 

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. 

We are also very interested in patent models or salesman samples of all churns or eggbeaters. 

 Dazey Butter Churns 

Probably the best-known manufacturer or brand of butter churns that were gunn.jpg (16356 bytes)designed with glass containers and geared rotary-crank dashers are the Dazey line of butter churns.  They came in several different sizes and with a few variations in the manner in which 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 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 and not allowing them, and fails to do anything to actually limit the sales of such frauds.  SHAME!!!!

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.

jewelfront.jpg (16380 bytes)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 chain-c.jpg (34156 bytes)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 kind of churn that has the potential to sell for 1000.00 or more on a good day.

pchurn1.jpg (19569 bytes)The wall-mounted swinging pendulum churn pictured here is another example of an unusual churn.  There are lots of different style wooden churns in the world, and 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 eggbeater or churn that is early and unusual, please contact us at LCM@AntiqBuyer.com with as many detail as possible about the piece that you have for sale and we will get back to you ASAP.  Thanks!!  

Antique Kitchenware & Unusual Patented Household Devices

 We have bought and sold vintage & antique kitchenware for over 20 years now.  Over time our tastes and buying  habits changed.  In the beginning of our buying & collecting 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 mechan2chop2.jpg (16884 bytes)ical 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, and now their 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.  We shall see in a few years if that was a mistake.

Other kitchen related antiques we are interested in and can help you sell are patented nutmeg graters, mechanical and patented food choppers, unusual apple peelers / parers, lemon squeezers, and many more related antiques from the early kitchen, farm, and household..

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 can2lemon.jpg (14975 bytes) openers and patented or unusual corkscrews.   Devices patented lemon squeezers, like the pair that are pictured here, are also collectible and sought after.  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 orgrate2.jpg (9136 bytes) vintage kitchen tools that we are interested in.  The one pictured here is made of walnut, cast iron and punched tin, and it is one that is definitely not common.  Other nutmeg graters that we would be interested in were patented by Carsley, Sexton, Ames, Davidson, and others. 

We are interested in patent models of pmnut.jpg (22826 bytes) any nutmeg grater, or other realy kitchen devices.  Please contact us if you have any.  Pictured on the left 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, so if you have any to sell or know of someone else who does, please be sure to call or email LCM@AntiqBuyer.com 

If you have vintage kitchen collectibles that are interesting, and in outstanding condition that you are looking to sell please contact us anytime by email at LCM@AntiqBuyer.com

Apple Peeler / Parer

Patented and mechanical apple parers, apple peelers and apple slicers thomp2.jpg (18465 bytes)are also of interest, and pictured here is one of the most graphic and mechanically sophisticated examples manufactured, 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 iquadappl.jpg (13607 bytes)n several variations, any of which would be of interest.  Other apple peelers, parers and slicers we are seeking to purchase are the Sun, Tripp Bros., the Bergner, Pratt's Patent, the Buchi, the Star, the Climax, and many others. 

Wooden apple parers as well as the cast iron ones are of interest  as well as stoneware apple butter crocks and jars,  so please let us know if you have any for sale.

Misc. Devices

raisen.jpg (20419 bytes)Two other categories of collectible kitchen antiques that we buy are raisin seeders, like the one pictured here, and cherry pitters.  All of these items 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.

milk1.jpg (16020 bytes)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.  

  

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!! 

 


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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 kitchen antiques similar to those that you see on this page 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.. 

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