And it just so happened that my traveling partner has been on the lookout for the old crocks  - - you put the cabbage in with some salt [spices optional], etc., weight it down with heavy plates or other means, stomp it down however the recipes tell (therefore, the need for a "stomper" like above in the olden days), & through the weeks/months, it will ferment.   On the farm, the crocks were kept in the cooler-to-cold temp cellar.
"20" & "4" are the size in gallons.  The Red Wing Stoneware Co. had both the Birch Leaf & Red Wing logos.  The going price is to pay no more than $10 per gallon if you can find these at that price.  These were a bit better than that "good price!"

EKCO USA; was a red painted handle with yellow, green, & white rings; 
6 7/8" x 1 3/4" x 3/4"; In a $10 bundle of 16.

In memory of Jana ~ her Graniteware, wood knob & screw handle;
6" rd. x 7 3/4";  $ .50

This style is usually categorized as a biscuit cutter with handle.  More specifically, scalloped, pierced tin with a heavy duty strap handle.  It was already sold in the late 1800s - early 1900s.  With no markings, a person needs to judge according to the wear, but many elements can attribute to that, so these kinds of cutters can be newer than older, or vice-versa.  I also have them in "set of 3", or more when newer and without handles.  When they fit inside each other, it's called "nesting."  (3" rd. x 2 1/2" tall w/handle; $ .25)

I grew up with people calling the larger "scooping items," with a deeper "bowl," a dipper.  The more shallow utensils, like for use in a gravy boat, was called a ladle.  After a bit of reading in antique sources, it says it's the opposite!  Then again, the angle of the handle to the bowl may determine the difference, OR when it comes down to it . . . the family jargon & the part of the country you live in becomes "the way!"  In one of my great sources it says generally ladles are larger than dippers.  Really?  I always thought the opposite!  

There can be loads of whips, whisks, beaters, stirrers, spoons, lifters, flippers, & what-have-you in our kitchen drawers or containers on the counter.  And each one has specific descriptions according to the manufacturers' names, & the "Kitchen Collectibles" manuals we have as resources today.

Also, each one can command a "pretty penny" (the former lingo in the days-gone-by when the penny meant something), within the so-called "antique" market today.  (You do know that an item needs to be 100 years old in order to claim the title of "antique?" --  Right??  So today people have come up with the words of "vintage, collectible, rare, unique, yesteryear, days-gone-by, etc." to claim some sense of a period of age & past time.)  Patents for this were the late 1800s - early 1900s.  A similar new whip was  5¢ in the 1895 Montgomery Ward catalog.

One of my best sources of learning the details of each of these home-baking artifacts is Linda Campbell Franklin's editions of 300 Year of Kitchen Collectibles.  For instance, the "coiled wire 'cross cut' pattern, with (used to be) painted red wood handle" egg whip/whisk pictured here is within the family of "chicken wire, diamond, closer-woven wire called checker, coiled spring, wire-lacing holding springs, & criss-cross springs for the cross-cut pattern," . . . all forms to describe the "wire weaving" of just this one type of kitchen tool to whip an egg or the egg white!  And then the outer rim can determine shapes of "flat, spoon, or pear-shaped," besides the wood or wire handles which also have various descriptive names!  So with all that history in our grandmothers' lives, each one becomes a treasured keepsake of gratitude to someone's life❣  (3" x 5" oval of the 11 1/4" length; $ .65)

A round piece of heavy iron . . . I wonder what happened to my one grandmother's wood-burning stove, used up into the 1970s?  I remember Grandpa opening up the drop-down or a swing-door on one end to insert the pieces of wood he took from the "wood bin" behind the kitchen door, in order to keep the fire going -- the only means of heat in the house.  The bin was built in the wall between the enclosed, non-heated back porch & the kitchen-dining room.  

So early on in the Junk Jaunt trail, a man had this burner plate for $1.00.  Memories of one of the  grandparents.  There'd be a "handle lifter" to fit in the hole to lift the "hot plate" & stir the fire below.  (8" round; $1.00)

Knife, double-sided, ripple~scalloped blade (not sharp), possibly for fish scaling?; "stainless Germany"; wooden handle originally painted green; (7 3/4" x 1/2"; in a $10 bundle of 16 items) 

Growing up in Wisconsin, one of the two main maple syrup-producing states, on weekends breakfasts were often pancakes, and especially potato pancakes which a nearby church even used as a festival event each spring with the maple syrup season.  We were never short of a-gallon-at-a-time of "the real stuff☺❣"  So when I saw this jar, "Oh, what memories!"  It was the container in every restaurant (& maybe some homes?) & only for maple syrup.  (glass; 3 1/2" rd., 5" w/handle, 5 1/2" tall; $1.00)

When buying in the German flohmarkts almost each week for 3 years (1988-'91), my face became familiar to a lot of the regular vendors.  How I wished I could have spoken more German, but there weren't any of the opportunities to learn as there are today!  I was one of the very few Americans who "got out into the everyday German life," as you could live within an "American military community" your entire time if so desired!  (What a loss!!)

About 2+ years into my time, a vendor who spoke English invited me to his family home & showed me a very large Dutch antique-collections book.  The 2-page  centerfold was 2 long shelves filled with these nut grinders, and each had a different name - mostly women!  It was astounding.  I had no idea.  Not having bought a one until that time, I was then on the hunt & within the rest of my time there, & within my bargaining budget, I got enough to fill up the 3 shelves of an old wooden wash stand cabinet I also found ($20), specifically to display these "clamp on" artifacts.  And I figured that when the shelves were full, I'd be done buying them!  Also, I never bought one without the wooden "pusher" in the feed tube.  Then seeing a new style one day with a round, shallow, cup-like feed tube, I asked the vendor what it was for, & when he said, "Mohn," I understood - - a poppy seed grinder!  Who knew?!?

I just remember the most expensive one was DM25 -- it was small & had the word "BABY" on it -- very different ($16.50).  All these years back here in the U.S. I've seen a few of these in Antique Malls (without pushers & quite $$$), & usually they're called "vegetable choppers" (in this nut grinder style, not like our common meat grinder).  But here was one on the Junk Jaunt - by the Lorraine Novelty Mfg. Co., New York, NY., 1950s or earlier.  (green; 8 3/4" x 2 3/8" on cup end x 5 1/4" wide; no pusher, but only $2)

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