Chopper, Food
- Object Name:
- Chopper, Food
- Object ID:
- 2002.660
- Date:
- 1870-1890
- Description:
- Meat chopper. Mechanical food chopper consisting of hand-operated metal gears that activate chopping arm inside tin-plated cylindrical can. Wooden disk inside can. Hand crank (turned wooden handle missing from shaft). Mounted on green painted wooden plank.
- Material:
- Wood
Metal - Dimensions:
- H-17.5 W-17 L-24.5 inches
- Provenance:
- See 1978.079.05, smaller version of this chopper, patented by Laroy S. Starrett (1836-1922) of Newburyport, MA, in 1865 and manufactured by the Athol (MA) Machine Company.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- Subjects:
- Food processing, Food processing machinery
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