Rotary Food Mixer
date: label: date made
content: 1910-1918
notes: label: Description
content: Rotary style food mixer, whip, or egg beater (eggbeater). Thin bent wire blades, oval in shape. Heavy cast iron cog and crankwheel at top, molded, with metal arm and wooden handle, laquered black. Heavy cast iron lid/base (black enamel) fits over top of accompanying container, thick (flint) clear transparent glass, molded, square, with flared base and chamfered corners. Lid is embossed: "SILVER NO 3/MEASURING/GLASS EGG/BEATER". Bottom of glass is embossed: "SILVERS/TRADE/MARK/BROOKLYN" inside of circle image, banner on top and bottom of line image of Brooklyn bridge. Body of glass container is embossed across bottom of all four sides: "THE SILVER/NEW/EGG/BEATER"; and embossed down each side with a different measurement: "POUND/FLOUR/SIFTED/EVEN FULL", "1 QUART/EVEN FULL", "LIQUID WEIGHTS", "EVEN FULL/8' 'T' 'CUPS OR/4 COFFEE CUPS", along with measurements in cups, pounds, pint, gills, and ounces.
label: Description
content: This mixer was described in a 1910 Silver (& Co.) Catalog: "Square jar wire whip style. Combination egg beater and measuring glass receptacle. Equally good for beating eggs, whipping cream or making any kind of cakes, custards, etc." It was listed in the 1918 Sears Catalog for a price of $1.45.
label: Description
content: Related patents: US 332375 A; December 15, 1885, Edwin Baltzley, Washington, District of Columbia, for "Culinary Beater"; US 1220928 A, March 27, 1917, Edwin Baltzley and Louis E. Baltzley, Weehawken, New Jersey, for "Culinary beater".
label: Description
content: Maker is The Silver and Company.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
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.322793.05
label: accession number
content: 322793
label: collector/donor number
content: 405
label: catalog number
content: 322793.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: beater
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: cast iron (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 3/8 in x 4 in x 4 in; 31.4325 cm x 10.16 cm x 10.16 cm