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Red Wood Handle Slicer Mincer Kitchen Utensil Gadget
This is a neat old kitchen collectible or utensil or gadget which would be used to slice something in thin strips, perhaps a dough slicer for pasta? We've also seen this called a mincer. It has a nicely turned wood handle painted red attached to a two part metal piece that has a row of round wheels which do the slicing. By pressing on a thumb tab which has impressed on it, "Press Thumb Here" you can lift or separate a metal backing piece which guides the circles but separates for easy cleaning (given the age, you do need to guide the circles into the slotted grooves, pressing the thumb tab does not center the wheels in the grooves). This piece also has a stand up guard to protect your thumb. There is no manufacturer marking and we guesstimate that this piece dates back to the 1920s-40s period. Be careful in handling as the wheels still have a sharp edge feel.
Measures about 7 1/2 inches in length with about 3 1/8 inches greatest width across the metal part and about 1 1/2 inches in height to the top of the circles when sitting on a table. Very nice old used aged condition but certainly not mint. The red wood handle is worn and dirty with black spotting/wear as well as 3 white spots where the red paint has worn off which you can see in the topside image, scratches and surface flaking/tiny chipping on the pointy circular edging, and other general use wear. The metal portion (which we believe to be tin from the general darkening and tarnishing but don't know that for certain) shows expected tarnishing/aging with all over black tarnish/spotting as well age darkening, much pitting/black dots on the metal cap which meets the wood handle and other general wear. There is some light rust on the metal cap and on the circular wheels. The cap also freely lifts up (it is not tight on the wood beneath it). But none of this is unexpected for a vintage kitchen utensil and we judge this to reinforce its old used look and antique appearance. A nice addition to any collection of painted red wood handle kitchen collectibles, kitchen utensils or kitchen gadgets.
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Edlund Red Wood Handle Egg Beater; Patent Date 1931
This is an old egg beater labelled on one side of the round wheel with "Edlund Company, Patent No. 1789224 - Other Pat Pend., Made in U.S.A., Burlington, VT". The patent number indicates the patent for this vintage beater was issued in 1931 (the beater could be made after that year under that patent number; this beater does look to us to be of circa 1930s vintage, although we can't guarantee that). It has two painted red wood handles at the top and to turn the wheel, with a double metal beater, each labelled "Stainless" on the side. Measures about 11 3/4 inches in length, about 4 1/2 inches greatest width.
Fully rotates, but does so in a jerky manner, not smooth, probably indicating it needs some oiling, but we are selling it as is, as found. We've done only minor surface wiping, could use a good cleaning (but some people like them looking used, so we leave alone). Very nice used condition with no visible dents, breaks, parts missing that we see. However it does show much age with wear to the wood handles (including paint wear, but not as bad as many we see, paint is largely still there), and much brown spotting/dirt/rust on the metal (some of this might come off with brillo but we haven't tried). A good bit of this is on the wheel, covering some of the letters or numbers. We've tried to show this in the images, please note that the white "hot spots" are lighting reflection from the camera.
Still a nice addition to any collection of antique egg beaters, kitchen collectibles, kitchen utensils or kitchen gadgets.
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