Mustard Mill (Model)
date: label: Date made
content: 1900-1950
label: Date made
content: early 20th century
notes: label: Description
content: Paul Oehmig (1867-1927) was a machinist in Chicago who, having designed a mill for grinding nuts and grains, began producing machinery for such things as peanut butter and prepared mustard. Paul Oehmig, Jr. built this model of his father’s patented mill in 1915, when he was a student at the Lewis Institute, in Chicago.
label: Description
content: Ref: Paul Oehmig, “Mustard-Grinding Mill,” U.S. Patent 957,997 (May 17, 1910).
label: Description
content: Paul Oehmig, “Mill for Grinding Grain and Nuts,” U.S. Patent 1,095,516 (May 5, 1914).
label: Description
content: Illus. of the patented mustard mill in Paul Oehmig & Co., ad in <i>The Spice Mill</i> (Dec. 1921): 2282.
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. W. H. Oehmig and Mr. Robert Oehmig
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.337023
label: catalog number
content: 337023
label: accession number
content: 1979.0223.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mustard Mill Model
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 23.3 cm x 27.3 cm x 34.5 cm; 9 3/16 in x 10 3/4 in x 13 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 27.4 cm x 40 cm x 31 cm; 10 13/16 in x 15 3/4 in x 12 3/16 in