Balloon Style Whisk
date: label: date made
content: 1922-1929
notes: label: Description
content: Early balloon style whisk or beater, with "archimedes" up-and-down mechanism. Long wooden handle, painted black, with circular metal eyelet at end for hanging. Twisted metal shaft with encased coil spring which allows for circular mixing motion when handle is turned. Bulb-shaped mixing end, comprised of four thin bent strips of metal, with four rounded projections at bottom of bulb. Handle is stamped: "MADE IN U.S.A./ PAT'D", with the A&J Manufacturing company logo/trademark stamped to the right: "A&J". The A&J trademark stamp is the 1922 version, which was modified in 1932. The company was purchased by the EKCO Housewares Company in 1929.
label: Description
content: Maker is A&J Manufacturing Company of Birmingham, New York.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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.322793.39
label: accession number
content: 322793
label: collector/donor number
content: 441
label: catalog number
content: 322793.39
objectType: label: Object Name
content: beater
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 5/8 in x 2 1/4 in; 34.6075 cm x 5.715 cm