You guys had some seriously creative guesses as to the identity of the mystery item I posted about on Monday. They ran the gamut from candle snuffer to tea strainer. The winner of the random drawing, Evelyn, ventured a guess that the object in question was a flour sifter. She unfortunately wasn’t correct, but she’s still going to receive a copy of the 1959 edition of Betty Crocker’s Guide to Easy Entertaining.
Dear readers…the actual identity of the antique kitchen gadget is an ice cream scoop. Several of you completely blew my mind and are obviously geniuses of sorts. In fact, Marisa got it right away. My grandmother and Billie Gammon would have been proud of you! Personally, I failed miserably by repeatedly insisting that it had be some sort of gravy strainer so those of you who didn’t hit this one out of the ball park are in good company. Thank you for playing along with me! I’ll have to see if my gram can dig up another funky toy for a post later in the year.
{ 16 comments… read them below or add one }
That’s pretty awesome. I was totally off! *laughs*
I don’t know how I’d feel about triangular shaped ice cream. It wouldn’t sit on a cone very well, would it?
I would’ve NEVER picked an ice cream scoop!
yay! congrats to Evelyn!
so i’m bummed I’m only just now seeing all the toher comments.. something was up and I was only able to see like 10 of them before.
you need to rig the next contest so that whomever guessed ham-bone-clamp and flux capacitor win something. those two are frigging GENIOUS. just sayin’.
thanks again for hosting, erin. you are too kind to the random internet!
Oh yay! I’m glad to know I guessed right!
An ice-cream scoop! Okay, that is so adorable.
Thank you! I can’t wait to read it!
Oh man, this is what I get for not checking my google reader for the past three days (stupid law school); I missed out on the guessing part. Oh well, I wouldn’t have guessed this was an ice cream scoop. How cool!
really interesting. I wouldn t have guessed it .
I would have never guessed it was an ice cream scoop. I guess they didn’t like round scoops of ice cream back then!
Thank you so so much for your kind comments on my blog. They are really appreciated. I love your blog and will be checking back often!
congratulations to Evelyn and thank you Erin, that was fun!
an ice-cream scoop? really? I never would have guessed! It looks so flimsy, though! I guess the ice cream back then wre much creamier and softer!
I had to chuckle at “Norlands is the ancestral home of the Washburn family. You’ve probably never heard of them…” True… unless you grew up in Maine and just hauled on field trips to Norlands every couple years, at an age when you couldn’t appreciate it in the slightest! 🙂
Very cool! I love antique kitchen gadgets!
I wish I had seen it in time to guess. They use one of these in the movie Summer Magic!
I love antiques!
Hi there we have had one of these ice cream scoops for years, we have had a lot of people guessing what it was for but my husband and I both said we thought it was an icecream scoop, can you tell us if they are worth anything or not?
I was cleaning out an elderly aunts home and came across an antique item I knew instantly that it was an ice cream scoop. My sister in law said it was a flour sifter. I said how could it be the top isn’t open. I ‘m glad to see that I was correct. thanks betty