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
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.
I can & will help you sell your vintage & antique
kitchenware on consignment from my antique sales website
www.Patented-Antiques.com
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 
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 purpose
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 
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.
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
kind of churn that 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 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 mechan
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 can
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 or
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
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
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 i
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
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.
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!!
Select Antique
Beaters / Mixers / Kitchenware We Have Sold in the Past
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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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