********************
Larry and Carole
        Meeker
         *******************

Internet
Antique Dealers & Brokers

 

www.AntiqBuyer.com


LCM@AntiqBuyer.com

 

530-620-7019

Purveyors and Dealers of American Patented & Mechanical Antiques
 

 

Home

Selling Us Antiques

About Us

FAQ's

 

 $ Antiques $
  $ Wanted $

*Antique Surveying
      Instruments*

Transits
Levels
Compasses
Accessories

*Antique Tools*

Woodworking Planes
Misc Tools 
Leatherworking Tools
Farm
Anvils
Mining
Traps

*Antique Sewing
    Machines*

Early & Patented
Singer Featherweights
Toys
Sewing Birds

*US Patent Models*
*Salesman Samples*

Cast Iron Stoves
Salesman Samples
Patent Models
Washers

*Americana*

Figural Cast Iron
Occupational Photos
Coffee Grinders
Corkscrews
Pressing Irons
Ice Cream Scoops
Sports & Golf
Kitchen
Toasters

*Office Antiques*

Scientific Antiques
Calculation
Slide Rules
Typewriters
Telephones
Toys & Steam
Fans & Electric
Pencil Sharpeners

Patent Date Chart

Wanted to Buy

Links

Contact Us

 


 Mechanical
 Antique Ice Cream Scoops / Dishers

 We Can Help You Sell Your Antique & Collectible Ice Cream Scoops and Soda Fountain Related Antiques!! 

We have bought and sold a lot of antique ice cream scoops, or ice cream dippers over the years, and we are actively seeking more ice cream related antiques with your help.  

At some point in this process we realized that we were continually seeing certain scoops over and over, and other scoops we had only seen once and never again after we sold it. 

I suppose that is the way the collecting urge in any category begins and is one of the main ways that collectors are created, not born.  Being a relative novice at it I can still be impressed with some scoops that I am sure are considered common to those who have been at it for years.  

Basically we are interested in any early and unusual or different style ice cream scoop.  We are interested in a lot of different mechanical and patented or technology-related antiques and strange devices of all different sorts, and scoops or ice cream dishers are just one of many categories of collectibles that fit into this definition that we are interested in. 

The scoop to the right is generically know as a slicer, and was introduced during the Depression as a means to save the storekeeper a penny here and a penny there in extra ice cream that he was dishing out unnecessarily.  This scoopscoop_gem1.jpg (11934 bytes) always ensured that the customer never got more than a leveled-off half scoop for his nickel.  It sure is interesting to note that nowadays in this "super-size" era in which we live, at the Stewart's in New York state and elsewhere on the East Coast, a single scoop ice cream cone is in reality about 5 times the size of what this one put out.  This speaks to a few differences between now and then, and also about the growing waist sizes we see in today's society as well.  Here in California, on the other hand, they use a scoop that is smaller than what this one puts out, charge you $3.50 for it, and smile while collecting the money.  The United ice cream scoop / slicer shown above is a somewhat harder to find variant than the look-alike Dover Slicer.  

We are interested in scoops or dishers that has an unusual feature or different shape or size bowl scoop_2splt.jpg (19039 bytes) from the norm.  The next picture is of two ice cream dippers that have split-apart bowl features.  The one in the front is unmarked other than a small "Pat Pend" inside the handles and is interesting because it has the ability to split wide open thus ensuring that the scoop of ice cream would let go and fall onto the plate or dish.  This ice cream scoop comes in at least two different sizes that I know of, but if there are others I am interested in buying them. 

The scoop in the back is of a more dubious design, and instead of having one wire scraper inside the bowl to push the ice cream out, this one has two that start in the middle and both go to the opposite sides.  Both of these dippers are pretty difficult to find. 

Other scoops that have a similar feature to this are the Bohlig, and the Mosteller, both of which have bowls that rotate or split apart.  These are the style or type of  ice cream scoops that I am looking for, instead of the later and more typical Gilchrist's and other normal or standard-looking scoops with plastic handles that we are use to seeing in the antique shops and at antique shows these days.

The next picture is of a group of unusual pieces that are referred to as molds or3ladd_scoop.jpg (16686 bytes) scoops, or even cookie cutters, when a knowledgeable buyer is asking how much it is from the less knowledgeable seller.  The truth is they probably should be called a mold but they are ice cream related. I have an ad for these from an old magazine that shows that there were 6 different shapes of these made or available, and the Diamond was not one of them so you can stop looking for it.  The first one on the left is the Masonic symbol of the square and dividers, as found on a lot of their pieces, and not an A and W.  These were produced for use at social functions for fraternal organizations and the like, but I do not know or am unfamiliar with what the middle one represents, and have no idea what it would would stand for.  I would scoop_j1.jpg (18694 bytes) love to find other or different molds (or cookie cutters) like these, and if you have any please contact me.

The final picture, on the left, is of an antique ice cream scoop that I have never seen before, and is not in the Smith book that was put out a number of years ago on this subject.  I have never been to one of the Ice Screamers Ice Cream Scoop Conventions, and would love to go with this in hand to see if there was interest in it.  Who knows, perhaps it is as common as an IcyPi or Kingery, but I doubt it.

If you have any similar or unusual antique Ice Cream Scoops, or Dishers, that are for sale, please contact us at LCM@AntiqBuyer.com and give us as many details as possible.  Thank You!

If you have other early mechanical kitchen devices that are for sale,  please contact us at  LCM@AntiqBuyer.com  and provide us with as many details as possible. 

 


Select Antique Ice Cream Scoops Previously Sold

*****Click the Link Below*****

The above ice cream scoops are examples of the caliber, condition and quality of scoops and dishers that I am primarily interested in. 

To see many other examples of antique or vintage kitchenware that we currently have for sale, please go to our sister site at www.Patented-Antiques.com.and visit the Americana & Kitchen sale pages you will find there. 

To see and  get more information on all the other sorts of different patented mechanical antiques we are interested in buying, spend some time on the other pages at that site as well.