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valmont325

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Unusual Treenware Mixer?
« on: February 21, 2014, 10:32:41 am »
I was curious if anyone has seen something like this before. I am calling it a "Treenware Mixer"  but i do not know for sure exactly what it is, or if it is even an antique or perhaps something newly made to look old.  I know the glass container is old but as for the rest i am not sure.  It's about 18-19" Tall. and about a foot wide.

The mechanics are like a basic hand mixer, you turn the crank on top which works the gears and eventually makes the paddles in the glass jar move.


So any ideas? On age? Or what it is exactly?
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Re: Unusual Treenware Mixer?
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2014, 11:06:18 am »
Does is say Treenware?
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Re: Unusual Treenware Mixer?
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2014, 11:10:51 am »
No.
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Re: Unusual Treenware Mixer?
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2014, 11:14:31 am »
Small glass container !!  Looks like a version of my Dazey churn !!  Maybe for goats milk !! Where did you get it ??
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Re: Unusual Treenware Mixer?
« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2014, 11:15:58 am »
It could either be a butter churn or a cream whip.
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Re: Unusual Treenware Mixer?
« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2014, 11:17:27 am »
Quote from: mart on February 21, 2014, 11:14:31 am
Small glass container !!  Looks like a version of my Dazey churn !!  Maybe for goats milk !! Where did you get it ??

At an antique shop.
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Re: Unusual Treenware Mixer?
« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2014, 11:20:15 am »
HA, ya beat me Mart, I was looking for a picture ;D ;D
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Re: Unusual Treenware Mixer?
« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2014, 11:23:03 am »
i had originaly thought of of those Daisey Churns but i am amazed at the size of this piece. And the fact it's all wood.
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Re: Unusual Treenware Mixer?
« Reply #8 on: February 21, 2014, 11:27:34 am »
Love it!! I collect treen & have never seen anything like it.  It's beautiful. 
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Re: Unusual Treenware Mixer?
« Reply #9 on: February 21, 2014, 11:31:16 am »
HA, I just noticed it was all wood.

Me thinks it is a non-functioning "repo" facsimile of a butter churn that someone made as a "craft project".
 
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valmont325

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Re: Unusual Treenware Mixer?
« Reply #10 on: February 21, 2014, 11:31:41 am »
Quote from: gg27 on February 21, 2014, 11:27:34 am
Love it!! I collect treen & have never seen anything like it.  It's beautiful. 

Thank you, i thought so too!
But it's amazing because i do not see why someone would go through all that work to make the gears/cogs and all that just to make something mix.  Why not just take a spoon and stir whatever?

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Re: Unusual Treenware Mixer?
« Reply #11 on: February 21, 2014, 11:35:29 am »
It wasn't made to mix anything, .... it was made just for the fun of making it.

It doesn't look like the glass jar can be removed from it.
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Re: Unusual Treenware Mixer?
« Reply #12 on: February 21, 2014, 11:37:46 am »
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Re: Unusual Treenware Mixer?
« Reply #13 on: February 21, 2014, 11:45:21 am »
Quote from: cogar on February 21, 2014, 11:35:29 am
It wasn't made to mix anything, .... it was made just for the fun of making it.

It doesn't look like the glass jar can be removed from it.

Yes the Glass jar can be removed.
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Re: Unusual Treenware Mixer?
« Reply #14 on: February 21, 2014, 12:13:56 pm »
So now, after coming across that link i know that it's from the 19th century. but i am curious if this is a reproduction of one. Like i said, i know the glass itself is antique.
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