UTENSILS* Metals* of all sorts, wire*, wood*, maybe some rubber* or plastic* parts, etc.
Most of these utensils have a "circa" patent date of 1870 to WWII (mid-1930s/1940 mfg. time) & were purchased in German flohmarkts, 1988-91. Many purchased in the United States from the late 1800s till mid-1900s were made in Germany and imported into the USA. Many can be found in Linda Campbell Franklin's manuals of 300 Years of Kitchen Collectibles or some Victorian "antique & collectible utensil" manuals. Only a handful in this collection were manufactured in the USA. The info is provided when known.

Assorted - pinchers L & R; copper soldering tool - center

possibly a baker's scraper - German

Known as batter whips; wooden handles could be blue & white; blue, yellow, red, green, or unpainted.

Inscribed as "Batter Beater - Curved to fit the Bowl"" - this red one, U.S. patent 1930.

"Strains, Drains, Beats, Blends, Whips, Mixes"

older wire batter whips

seems like a cake lifter or server vs. a pie server

L - Globe Delivery Company

cake whips & mixing spoons; perforated steel; R - c. 1900

FRAKO D. R. G. M. (Germany, used 1891-1952) (https://www.toledo-bend.us/VCL/info_2/drgm.html)


candy cutter, possibly, OR herb mincer, OR noodle cutter, OR a wall surfacing tool; just don't know.


L = Swans Down Cake Flour mixing spoon; R = a batter whip or skimmer

Swans Down Cake Flour



Keglined, Muehlebach, & Piels

cake mixing spoons

Made in "Germany"

Rheingold & Ballentine

Every beer company (using hops) gave away bottle openers, commonly called "church keys."