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Samplers-and-Santas
Mar 19, 2019
What is it?
This item, whatever it is, has piqued my curiosity. I emailed an antique dealer hoping for an answer but she's never seen one. Thick wooden handle, flexible coils, and I thought a rug beater but it's under eleven inches in length. I tried describing it to search engines and only found long handled beaters with a large single coil. Before my brother has a friend take it to his booth, they would like to know what to tag it! Does anyone know?
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An egg whisk, perhaps? Or some kind of whisk.
I Googled “primitive coiled wire whisk” and looked at images only. I saw some that look similar. None had the extra coil up the middle.
If it is an egg beater/whisk, the extra coil up the middle could have made it serve double duty as an egg separator as well.
I think it was used as a whisk or egg beater. I see these fairly often but without the extra wire in the center. The old kitchen gadgets just fascinate me.
Take care,
My mother had something similar and she used it to beat egg whites.
The wire was of a smaller gauge but it looked very similar.
Maybe yours was used for industrial eggs.
I searched and searched with multiple key words and like everyone else I could only find close with one coil. It is turning out like an oil lamp that I have that I can find no information on even in lamp forums I get no responses. Oh well, so goes the mystery of things we find.
Like many others, I would guess it's an egg beater or some sort of whisk ... and I didn't have any better luck than anyone else at finding a matching image. While I didn't find any images of a looped coil thing with another coil up the middle, there were several things listed as egg beaters that were made up of a loop with several coils going across the center.
(holy moly, that not-a-robot verifier is really being a hardass tonight!)
Hmmmm... My bet is on an whip/whisk (we called them whips)...and I have seen them with wire in the center, but this does seem a bit “heavy duty”.... Perhaps it was used in the army or institutional kitchens. Let us know if you find out for sure....
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