Mixers
Like many other kitchen appliances (irons, blenders, you name it) are items women likely received duplicates of as wedding presents. As the years went on more would come in the form of anniversary/birthday/whatever gifts and join others stored away for future use.
With appliances built to last the duration back then, a housewife probably never got past her first and the rest never saw the light of day. It takes estate sales/moving/garage sales to flush all these goodies out. With the advent of Ebay you find more and more people willing to have estate sales or find other methods to move on these goods as they figure there is "gold in dat dar attic".
Great mixer, though! Way to go.
Launderess