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Wednesday July 8, 2009
The name on this contraption was purposely blurred - it would have given it away! So what do you think this was used for?
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Comments
It looks like a cheese grater for the big rounds of cheese. It might be a meat grinder, though, just as easily. Sausage, anyone?
I agree with Beth – some sort of grinder, probably for meat. My grandpa has a grinder that looks very similar. He uses it for everything from grinding sausage to making cole slaw.
It looks like the old, manual tomato presses my Italian relatives would use to jar the tomatoes from their garden at the end of every August, so they’d have the tomatoes for their sauce throughout the fall and winter.
This is a sausage grinder – MOST DEFINITELY!!!!
It’s a meat grinder for making ground beef, sausages.
I think it’s either a coffee grider or a flour grider, has to be some sort of grider I would think.
Looks like a coffee grinder that you would have found in a general store
I believe it is an antique Meat Grinder.
Meat grinder… i.e. ground beef or sausage.
it’s a coffee grinder.
I`m going to put my two cents in and say it is a wheat grinder.
Seems to me that I saw a coffee grinder like this one on a Antiques Across America show.
Well it seems we all agree it is a a grinder of some sort but which kind? Coffee, wheat, meat, Flour? Since the clue was city folks won’t have a clue I doubt it to be the coffee so I am going with Meat.
Grape press
it’s a grinder. maybe for meat, but it looks like the one my gparents used to make salsa and such.
It is old cast iron coffee grinder from the early 20th century
I vote for the flour mill
I’m pretty sure it’s a meat grinder.
TO ME IT LOOKS LOKE A CORN HUSKER DROP THE CORN INTO THE MOUTH TURN THE HANDLE AND IT PEEL THE CORN
a coffee grinder
Either meat grinder or pea sheller.
This is a hand-cranked grain-grinding mill.
most meat grinders were designed to be clamped to a bench or table and also incorporated extrusion cylinders and dies
therefore i would think that not being for city folk this grinder /mill was used in the 1800,s on rural farms for both milling corn and grinding coffee
This is a corn sheller.
It’s a coffee grinder. Could be used for anything, even wheat, but basically it’s a grinder and I think originally made for coffee.
Actually, come to think of it, just dawned on me. I had one of these in the late 60’s. Wish I still had it. I used mine to grind meat. Bo’t beef or pork roasts when on sale, instead of ground meat, and made my own very lean ground meat.
It’s a coffee grinder. Without a doubt.
Or if it’s not, it should be.
It’d probably a meat grinder, but my mom had something similar. It was cherry pitter. Drop the cherries in, turn the handle, cherries come out one hole and the pits came out the other. Might also be used to seed tomatoes.
Sharon
It reminds me of the meat (sausage) grinder my mom used when I was a child, other than hers didn’t have the large wheel, but would attach to the table & had a handle which you would turn.
Then it could be a coffee grinder! lol
I would guess it’s a meat grinder, as I have a similar looking one only it’s narrower.
Mystery antique is a coffee grinder.
Gotta be a cherry pitter! Industrial style.
Two people have already guessed correctly I think. It is a corn sheller.
I believe it is a corn sheller. I would need to see the top and the other side to be sure.
My guess is a grain mill.
Missing piece from any Tim Burton set.
Sure looks like a coffee grinder to me. It’s beautiful, whatever it is. I need it for my farm kitchen, even if it has no practical function!
It removed field corn kernels from the cob to be ground for animal feed
Apple juicer.
Some sort of grinde,r for coffee perhaps.
Meat grinder.
How do I submit mystery item?
Its a corn sheller. Used to remove dried corn from the cob. Its a lot bigger than the one we had. Jack H.
It is a coffee bean grinder to grind up coffee beans for coffee.
Too late to be original…but, wow! How fun to have so many people guessing!
It is a sandwich meat grinder, ground up bologna into sandwich meat!!
It is 1 of three things 1 sausage stuffer,2 meat grinder 3. Coffee grinder Bonnie
it is an old time meat or coffee grinder most likely a meat grinder
linda
it’s an old time meat grinder could be also use to grind coffee beans but mostly a meat grinder
I’m sure its a coffee bean grinder.
I think it is a corn sheller.
This is a sausage mill,for making homemade sausage on hog killling day
I think it’s a coffee bean grinder
It looks like an old coffee grinder that you would find on the counter of a general store, probably late 1800’s to early 1900’s.
This is a corn kernel/coffee bean grinder.
it is an antique coffee grinder
I believe it to be a corn grinder
put the ear of corn in and it takes the corn off the cob and the corn comes out the spout
It’s a meat grinder. We’d put a raw beef
steak in it, turn the crank handle, and
ground beef would emerge like spaghetti.
This a grinder for grain.
Since it doesn’t clamp on, I think it’s a flour/corn mill grinder. Looks very cool. Can’t wait to find out.
I think it’s flour/corn meal grinder. Looks very cool. Looking forward to finding out.
It’s a mincer for meat.