Mechanical Antique
Ice Cream Scoops / Dishers
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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 scoop
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 
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
or
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 
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
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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.
