Kitchen Collectibles

As a topic, kitchen collectibles cover a very wide range of objects: cast iron cookware, specialized glassware and mechanical devices. Mechanical devices such as cherry seeders, ice cream dippers, counter top churns, apple peelers and egg beaters are especially interesting as are all manner of gadgets intended to make kitchen work easier and more efficient. Large numbers of patents of patents were issued from the 1850s on for all sorts of kitchen gadgets and equipment.

As collectibles these objects lend themselves to the formation of fun and interesting collections that can be easily and effectively displayed and even, on occasion, be used. They are a connection to the past, both distant and recent, when we observed our parents and grandparents actually using what we now consider to be antiques. Call it nostalgia; a connection to the past or whatever, it does help to create the attraction necessary to want to establish a collection of these objects.

Whether your object is to collect kitchen collectibles for your own intrinsic interest, to help create the kitchen of your memory or to “warm up” and add visual interest to modern kitchen, kitchen collectibles will do the trick. If your interest is in cast iron cookware it can be readily displayed on a beautiful rack and, of course, used daily to prepare delicious food. And, mechanical devices such as apple peelers and eggbeaters can be effectively used for their intended purposes. You’ll also have the joy and fun of teaching your children or grandchildren about how these highly decorative utilitarian objects helped to make kitchen chores easier – long before the advent of modern appliances.

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