Plunger Style Mixer
date: label: date made
content: 1888-1915
notes: label: Description
content: Plunger style egg beater (eggbeater) or food mixer. Mixing component comprised of two circular metal plates, curved, with small circular holes throughout, attached to coiled metal spring, graduated in size. Metal shaft, turned knob handle at top, laquered black. Circular, tin-coated steel cover has a folded edge and flange that sits into top edge of accompanying container, flint glass, uncolored, translucent, cylindrical, with chamfered edges, straight sides. Bottom of container is embossed: "THE LIGHTNING DASHER/EGG BEATER CO./TOLEDO O/PAT MARCH 27, 1888.". One side, bottom, of container is embossed: "POWa Br &C". Sides of container are embossed with measurements for pound, pint, quart, and cups, specific to "Liquid", "Sugar", and "Flour".
label: Description
content: Patent US 380226 A, March 27, 1888, Theron Spencer Steward and Anna Maria Elizabeth Steward of Toledo, Ohio, for "Churn-dasher".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Toledo
label: place used
content: United States: Ohio, Columbus
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mary Eloise Green
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.322793.23
label: accession number
content: 322793
label: collector/donor number
content: 423
label: catalog number
content: 322793.23
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mixing device
label: Object Name
content: eggbeater, lightning dasher
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin-coated steel (cover material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 5/8 in x 3 7/8 in; 29.5275 cm x 9.8425 cm