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OMG--I'm jealous!!!

Congratulations on your MIB 1947-48 Hamilton Beach Model G!!! Aren't you lucky--I found one at a garage sale for $3 but let's just say it's "well-used"...nowhere near MIB shape like yours. The larger bowl is off to the back, and now it has a new grounded cord...however, it did come with the original hang-tag which is tucked away in the drawer. Sure wish there was an MIB model here though...:(

You'll be pleased with this one. Should you decide to use it, Hamilton Beach stand mixers do an absolutely wonderful job of mixing when the "Bowl Control" is set right and thoroughly blend dry and wet ingredients in a matter of minutes. They are very quiet and take age in stride.

Again, congratulations on your excellent find!

--Austin
 
Nice mixer!

Sure is a nice mixer, Robert. That gal on the cover of the cookbook looks like Judy Garland's and Rosemary DeCamp's love child!

Is that a roundie the mixer's sitting on? Hmmmm? Any chance of getting pix and the story behind it?

veg
 
Amazing!

Robert,
I can't get over the things that you find! In boxes, and never used no less! I am really big on smells. I would have loved to smell the new smell from such a vintage appliance.
It is a beautiful mixer! I bet you sang all the way home! What a great day for you.
Thanks for the pictures!
Brent
 
So COOL!!!! Loved the pictures of the machine being unpacked.By any chance-was your HB mixer built in Washington, North Carolina?
HB used to have a very large appliance factory only about 15Miles from where I live-Never went in it-but saw it several times going by it.Sadly--now its closed.HB moved their main operations to Glen Allen Va,and China.I was just trying to figure out how long that NC factory was around.
 
Congrats on your wonderful find Robert. Everything Austin said! These are wonderful mixers, and how fun to have this particular one brand new, a model that was last made in 1955!

Rex, at the time this mixer was produced, Hamilton Beach was in Racine, Wisconsin. I think they were there until the late 60s and I'm not sure what the order of progression is after that. I do have a hand mixer from the 70s that was made in the factory you're speaking of, so maybe that's where they went when they left Wisconsin.
 
Hi Everyone, thanks for the congrats. Austin I don't think I will use this one, its too mint to be used and I have other mixers. This one will just go up on a shelf in the kitchen, stickers and all.

David I don't own any Dormeyers, I have other vintage stand mixers, three 1956 Sunbeam Mixmasters and one KitchenAid from the early 60's.

Rex as Scott said, this was made in Wisconsin.

I love my mixers, I usually find some excuse to pull one off the shelf and mix up a batch of something once a week or so.

Veg, yes, you are very observant! That is a color roundie in that picture a '59 RCA. It was my very first vintage color tv, I too found it at an estate sale for a absolute steal. It was a great learning experience as it took me five months of tinkering to restore it to working condition. I use at least two or three times a week to watch all the fun early color tv shows that are coming out on DVD. I have two posts about it on AK...

My $5 Find

Working on my CTC9
 
Very interesting-Figure HB started their early days in Racine Wis-seems like that was the birhplace for many small machines.Oster was out there as well.Thought HB started out making small universal motors for various applications.
Your "Audio-Karma" link about the RCA "Round-Jug" TV was very interesting.Used to work on those and other many-many years ago.sort of gave it up when SS circuits replaced the tubes.The tube sets were easier to fix and adjust.The picture on your TV is beautiful!!the best I have seen on those.Usually the ones I was stuck with had tubes that were rebuilt several times.-Just the gun assembly was replaced-the rebuilder didn't replace the phospors on the screen.A good rebuilder will do that.It was fun working on the vintage TV's Used to collect them until the ons me and a freind collect got stolen.We were storing them at a radio station transmitter site-the site was broken into-and they took the Tv's and anything else not tied down.I lived in an apartment at the time and didn't have space to keep them there.Was going to move them to a house I was getting atthe time.
 
I love it.

It would be much better looking though sitting on my shelf :(

I wouldn't use it either, though I would put up some red velvet ropes and charge admission for people to view it running dry.
I didn't find anything good vintage today except for two old Sunbeams that were so beat up I didn't even bother to pick them up. How in the world they get that bad is beyond me. They wanted $35 as well..no thankyou.
Email me and I'll send you the address to forward on the HB postage paid even.
 
I love mixers too!

As a kid my Mom had this stranger Dormeyer mixer. It was different than any other mixer in that the motor assembly sat vertical rather than horizantal, like most mixers.
Minnesota estate sales are so awesome for new- never used stuff. Some of these little old ladies buy TWO of everything to make sure they had extra.
We have a recent model (ugh-plastic) Sunbeam Mixmaster that I bought 2nd hand in an unopened box ($20 at rip-off Rainbow Attic in Kihei). My lovely Kitchenaid got left with a friend in Minnesota.
I also love to whip things up, but don't seem to have the time right now-thats a whole 'nother thread!
 
congrats

Hi Robert
What a beautiful machine! I can't imagine finding something like that MIB! As I moved through your pictures I was so excited to see that was the mixer my mom had when I was a kid. She got it as a wedding gift in 1952! When I saw those beaters I knew....I licked them clean many a time! Enjoy your new gem!
Rich
 
I can't imagine exactly why the mixer would have remained unused; this is the second MIB Mixmaster I found in the past couple of years. I'll add a link to pictures of the other MIB Mixmaster I found last year. That's an interesting thought David about people buying two, but these were expensive for the time so I wonder if these women might have gotten two mixers for wedding presents or a baby shower and only used one. She figured that when the first mixer dies she can pull the other one out of the attic. Maybe what happens is the poor dear dies before the first mixer dies????

 
That's a good possibility

Why it would be unused, a double wedding present or even just a present that was being kept til absolutely needed. What would that mixer have cost new at the time?
 
Pete, in 1954 that particular mixer sold for $39.50. It would have been about $37.50 at the time Richie's mom got hers in 1952. Slightly higher west of the Mississippi (or was it east of the Mississipi?) as they were so fond of saying in those days. Must have had something to do with transportation of goods at that time.

HB generally kept their prices just a very few dollars less than Sunbeam. I like the unique beater assembly on the Hamilton Beach's, and I like the infinitely adjustable bowl control.

My guess is she received multiple mixers as a wedding gift, and the original served her for her entire life, as we know today there are many mid-century mixers still running and in regular use. People at that time often lived in their homes for extended periods or all their lives, so it would never have been weeded out in a move or anything. She may even have forgot she even had it!
 
Robert ... that's a beautiful mixer!! I have my grandmother's (my mom's mom) that my mom gave to her in 1949 as a Christmas present.

After my grandmother died in 1964, my mom took it home and it was the only mixer my mom had for many, many years; I learned to bake with that mixer and Betty Crocker's picture cookbook ~ a true Minnesota staple! It wouldn't be Christmas without mixing a batch of sugar cookies and/or spritz cookies with it.

The motor is good and is strong enough to make seven minute frosting. Those were true workhorses. The big bowl is now gone, but I still have the smaller bowl. A yellow pyrex bowl works great on it, too.

Enjoy!! What a great find!!!
 
New Mixer Smell

Uni, I love it. Reminds me of the 1960's new car smell,
and the not so new usual Voice of Music phono smell.
Love those little "speed" windows on the HB's. Somewhere
lurking I have a "Mixette" with leftovers of it's original packaging. Bravo for you. So many of the "post WW2" treasures have been "mined". A wonderful rarity!
frntl
 

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