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
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
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.
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 m
odel 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