Wednesday, April 7, 2010

VTT - Vintage Kitchen Things



This postcard advertises Sears sinks and cabinets. That is a Coldspot refrigerator in the picture, probably the 1946 model. Below is the description from the back of the postcard. The cabinets appear to be steel, a type that was popular for postwar kitchens.



This week I am showing my vintage red kitchen thingies. I just bought the Bromwell's Measuring Sifter at a thrift store yesterday. I already had two vintage sifters, and I can't even remember the last time I used one. My other sifters have the type of handle that you squeeze to sift. This one has a red crank mechanism like the sifter my mother had. The Hazel Atlas nut grinder was bought at a thrift store more than thirty years ago and is just like the one my mother had. I used to use the grinder before they started selling chopped nuts for less than whole ones.



The other items I don't use, though I do keep them with my other kitchen utensils in case I need them. The Ekco tomato slicer on top is something I bought long ago, but I didn't even know what it was until I saw one on a blog.



I'm participating in Vintage Thingie Thursday

16 comments:

  1. I have a sifter like that too, and I use it all the time. They last forver.

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  2. All of these have been in our family homes through the years. I still have a few of them.

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  3. My mum still has a sifter like that! I love the little grinder.

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  4. Great postcard. My neighbors when I was growing up had white, steel kitchen cabinets. I think they are still in the house today.
    Jane

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  5. I love your kitchen items, love the red....and that postcard is great! Have a great VTT!

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  6. I so love vintage kitchen ware! Happy Vintage Thursday!
    xojanis

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  7. I just love vintage Kitchen items. And yours look great!

    Jocelyn
    http://justalittlesouthernhospitality.blogspot.com/

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  8. Those fridges are incredible. My MIL had one in her backyard (yes, outside) by the pool until a couple of years ago. She would unplug it for the winter and plug it back in the summer and it made everything nice and frosty.

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  9. Love that vintage kitchen picture and specially loved the vintage kitchen tools. Yours are just extra nice condition. Happy VTT..have a great weekend.

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  10. Looks like my grandmother's refrigerator. I have several of these utensils also. As for the sifter, mine has been stuck in a cabinet for a long time. Thank God for convienence foods!

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  11. Vintage house wares are my absolute faves! I must get an Ecko tomato slicer it is soooo cool!

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  12. If I may, I would like to save a picture of your postcard. Now to find a picture of my parents kitchen from the middle 1940's. They had those metal cabinets from Sears. I remember them growing up and then in the late 1960's they were replaced with wood ones.

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  13. Wonderful red handled kitchenalia!

    My parents had a Sears metal kitchen cabinet that they used for extra storage-it was kept in the basement and filled with lovely things!

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  14. I live in my grandparents house and had cabinets similar to these. I have no idea if ours were bought at Sears but it wouldn't surprise me. Sometimes I wish we had not replaced them. Thanks for coming by. The possibly 'feedsack' appliques are in better shape than the background fabric. Love your kitchen items. I didn't know the tomato slicer either!

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  15. Fun to see these vintage kitchen items. These were what were in my mother's kitchen when I was a child.

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  16. I have the same sifter you can't beat them for efficiency! And I love the large size of them.

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