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Antique Questions Forum / Re: What the heck IS this?

« on: February 03, 2012, 04:02:41 pm »

mart, I think we lucked out...I don't think that anyone knew what the cream dipper was, so it got tossed into a box lot with what was mostly junk.  Although we also got an old small-size (hand) meat grinder and a pair of vintage black plastic holders for cone-shaped paper cups (made by Paper Container Mfg Co, Chicago in the pre-Solo days) out of that same box.  So not a bad buy for $5.   

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: What the heck IS this?

« on: February 02, 2012, 09:16:42 pm »

Very true, Mart...sometimes we buy milk in bottles from the local dairies in our area, but we haven't come across any modern cream tops in the dairy case.   
We did stump some of our "older" friends with this...even those who grew up on dairy farms or worked in the dairy industry.  So I don't feel TOO dumb for not knowing what it was.  LOL.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: What the heck IS this?

« on: February 02, 2012, 09:44:09 am »

Thank you so much!  I really appreciate the help.

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Antique Questions Forum / What the heck IS this?

« on: February 02, 2012, 09:23:11 am »

This item was in a box lot that we picked up at a recent auction.  I've been searching the web all morning trying to identify it and have had no luck.

Made of metal (stainless?), approximately 8 inches in length.  The cylindrical piece slides up from the stationary bottom leaving about a one and a half inch opening.  The bottom piece is solid and cannot be removed.

There is a very small stamp on the handle up near the loop...appears to say something like PAT. JAN.7.1912 or JAN.2.1912....a search of the patent database didn't seem to return any viable results.

As you can imagine, there has been some hilarity over the speculation of what this could be.  I'm attaching 3 photos (hopefully they come through) and would appreciate any help that you all can give me.  Thank you!