Easter Egg Chocolate Mold
name: label: maker
content: Eppelsheimer & Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This two piece, metal chocolate mold was designed to produce one Easter egg.
label: Description
content: Molds began appearing in the late 1840s to early 1850s in Europe. In the late 1880s, U.S. companies began manufacturing chocolate molds, but Germany remained the largest supplier to the U.S. until the early 1900s. During the First World War, U.S. firms began to gain more ground against their European counterparts.
label: Description
content: The design of molds often followed the trends of the time. The “classic period” of 1880-1910 consisted of very realistic pieces made to resemble an object as closely as possible. Chocolatiers would often set up small vignettes depicting a complicated scene. These were time consuming and painstakingly complicated. From 1910-1930, molds were redesigned to be simpler and rounder in appearance. Fantasy began replacing realism. The mechanical design of the molds also began to change to accommodate changes in technology, such as new rotary machines that were developed to spin multiple molds at the same time to evenly distribute the chocolate.
label: Description
content: Eppelsheimer was formed in 1880 in New York City. In 1910 the company was acquired by William H. Warren, and in the 1940s the name was changed to Eppelsheimer & Co., Warren Bros. The American Chocolate Mould Co., formed in 1916 in New York City, took over Eppelsheimer in 1947, and by 1972, the company stopped producing metal molds and focused on plastic products and a few novelty molds.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Work and Industry: Food Technology
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content: Food
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Chocolate Manufacturers Association of the USA
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.76-FT-04.0015A
label: catalog number
content: 76-FT-04.0015A
label: accession number
content: 315132
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mold, Chocolate
label: Object Name
content: chocolate mold, rabbits, easter egg