Scoop, Ice-cream
- Object Name:
- Scoop, Ice-cream
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.537
- Place of Origin:
- Troy, NY
- Date:
- 1920-1950
- Description:
- Ice cream scoop, from a soda fountain. Hemispherical steel bowl on end of steel shaft. Turned wooden handle with red finish. Spring-loaded mechanism with thumb lever and gears that operate a metal band that sweeps the inner surface of the bowl. Metal band stamped "GEM SPOON CO. / TROJAN"; rest of lettering worn off. Most of steel surface was brass plated, now worn off in many areas.
- Material:
- Metal
Wood - Dimensions:
- H-2 W-2.7 L-11 Dia-2.7 inches
- Provenance:
- One of a group of soda fountain furnishings and equipment, part of the Wilfred B. Osgood Pharmacy Collection, consisting of the 1870s-1950s contents of the Knox Pharmacy (owned by Fred L. Knox) and Roberts Rexall Store (owned by George C. Roberts) in Farmington, NH. Wilfred Osgood purchased both pharmacies in the late 1940s/early 1950s, and kept the original furnishings from both stores. During the 1970s, he created a pharmacy display room from the contents of both stores. This collection is the contents of that display. The collection also includes manuscripts, books, photographs, and printed ephemera, transferred to NHHS library (1992-068).
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Donna T. Osgood in memory of Wilfred B. Osgood
- Subjects:
- Pharmacies, Pharmacists, Drugstores, Soda fountains, Ice cream and ices
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