Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Vintage Bakelite Egg Beater by Turner & Seymour

Earlier this year, I scored this awesome vintage egg beater with a rotary handle at Value Village. I paid $2.99 for it and just loved the beautiful aqua colour. I didn't know much about it, as it was only marked with "Made in Canada".


Recently I found out some more information about the piece, which has a shield logo on the bakelite handle. It turns out that this whisk was made in the 50s or 60s by a company named Turner & Seymour and the piece was likely called the Deluxe Super Whirl! What a quirky name.


I love learning new things about some of the mystery vintage items that I find. I first posted about it here along with these aqua coloured goodies, before I learned about the maker and of the bakelite material.


So glad I was able to figure out something new about my old egg beater!

Linking up to Colorado Lady's Vintage Thingie Thursday!

13 comments:

  1. YAY aqua. I also own an aqua handled egg beater, I need to go and check the manufacturer. I've started a mini collection of egg beaters too.

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  2. I've never seen anything like that at VV - that's a great find!!!

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  3. What a great turquoise eggbeater! I love anything turquoise.

    I'm not sure if it's bakelite, though, as I have never seen bakelite in that shade and plus they had stopped making bakelite after the 40's, the process was just too expensive.

    Still a great find though for $2.99!!!

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  4. I've seen a beautiful pale yellow-handled egg beater before too but thought it was a bit too expensive and left it.

    I love finding these pieces. Like dtdr said, perhaps it's not bakelite, but still beautiful and practical, right?

    Leilani, I'd love to see your collection!

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  5. It is gorgeous...what a great color. I too love to learn new things about my finds. Happy VTT!

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  6. My mother used these, but do not recall hers being designed like this one. In fact, I still have one of them and it is shaped differently. Good find.

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  7. I have an aqua one like yours,too; bought it from GoodWill in T.O. a few years ago. The colour is what attracted me. Your eggbeater is in better shape; mine has a couple of small, brown stains on the handle. I noticed the blade has an inscription: "stainless USA". Does your eggbeater have that? Thanks for the info. I enjoy reading your blog.

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  8. LV, yes, I notice that there seems to be two main styles of these vintage egg beaters - the handle is either askew (like this one) or straight up.

    Laura, so glad you are reading and enjoying the blog - thank you very much! My beater blade reads "Made in Canada".

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  9. I have an egg beater like yours too - just cant get better (and so much fun to use!) Scarlett x

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  10. I never realized kitchen tools came in so many colors. The tilted handle would be practical - keep your beating speed up because you wouldn't be hitting your hands together. Funny how each generation seems to feel they 'invented' everything. Grandma could have been styling with these - I just remember her having a black handled one around 1965.

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  11. This is so great! I found a beater very much like this one earlier this year, but mine is missing the handle. I am absolutely loving yours!

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  12. I have the exact same beater in yellow. In addition to looking retro awesome, this is the smoothest, fastest, most comfortable manual egg beater I've tried!

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  13. We bought a house with the previous owners' things still in it. One of these egg beaters was in the drawer. It's the best manual egg beater I have ever used. What an incredible tool!

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