Oster blender

[Versatronic]

Shhhhhhhh Pete.

Truth be told, the Oster Ice Crusher attachment doesn't work all that well. I get better results from a hand ice crusher. I have a bunch of the hand crank kind. Juice extractor for the Oster? No, I don't have one of those. I have a juicer attachment for my Sunbeam Mixmaster which I'll put in the showcase one day.

This is the best Juicer I have. This thing is great. It has a strainer that you can optionally use. I love pulp, but one of my little friends doesn't like pulp in Orange Juice, so you put the strainer in and it doesn't make it out the spout. Works great. 3 bucks from a hippie at a flea market who was finally going off his all juice diet.

 

[petek]

Here's a pic of the Oster Extractor attachment. That schmear on the front is old dried glue from where a sticker was at one time. Yeah I'll get right on it.. LOL

There was a Silex Juicit at the flea mkt last weekend, maybe I shouldn't have passed on it.. I took the all chrome manual Juice O Mat instead. Probably he'll still have it next weekend, I think I'm the only one who ever buys all this old stuff.. And those people that had the Dormeyer perc didn't show up, see what happens when you snooze, but they weren't regular sellers.

 

[Versatronic]

You did the right thing

Well, I'll tell you pete, those Juice-O-Mats are rarely found in the kind of condition that yours seemed to be in. The chrome ones I've see (they also come in colors) literally had chunks of the chrome missing. I've never seen a chrome one in that good of conditon. I truly believe you did the right thing. You'll find a Juicit a lot easier that one of those like that.

 

[petek]

Todays flea market find, a Lady Kenmore 600, 8 speed blender which is basically a rebadged Oster with the front control panel turned upside down and a slide switch for the different settings. As well I got this delightful GE perc.

 

[Versatronic]

Nice Stuff Pete

Yeah, that Kenmore does look like an Oster.

I haven't been to the fleamarket since the Kelvinator entered my life. Today I hit the fleamarket again and hit a couple of antique stores, too. And, of course, I picked up the Tip-Toe-Matic.

Here's my bounty:

In the back, the three yellow stacking canisters are Krispy Kans. Each has a glass knob with some white crystals in it. The glass knob comes off and you cook it at 450 for 15 to 30 minutes. The magic crystals turn blue and are ready to absorb moisture. Screw it back on and put your chips, crackers, and popcorn inside. I didn't know there were three sizes to this thing. Only saw the big one before.

In front of them, some near mint turquoise canisters.

In front of them, two Sunbeam stainless steel bowls for a chrome Mixmaster. It so happens that I have a chrome Mixmaster looking for two bowls. 2 bucks.

Moving right, for the tiki lounge, a souvenier hula girl, a silk hula girl linen, and the best find, a set of hawaii drink coaster in a holder.

To the right, a vintage Westinghouse promotional pink stove recipe holder in the original box.

In front of that, a maroon (not black like in the picture) boomerang ashtray that matching a room in my house perfectly.

In front of that, a shiner planter, 1 buck.

Moving left, a vintage salt and pepper shaker. Looks like a toaster. Push the lever and the bread raises. One slice is the salt, one is the pepper. These are pretty common and I aready have one, but I had to buy to get the rare piece to the left. I've never ever seen this thing. I guess it's supposed to be deep fryer toothpick holder. Push down a lever and the toothpicks raise up for easy access.

To the left of that, two "sputnik" candle holders. I turned one upside down so you can see the tripod legs.

In the middle, the best table ashtray ever made. Only the second one I've ever seen. The guy who owned the last one I saw wanted 35 bucks for it. I really wanted it but I was used to paying 1 or 2 and at most 3 bucks for ashtray. Today, 2 bucks. Glad I was patient.

In front of that, a vintage Ronson electric razor with a big starburst on it and all the original paperwork.

And finally to the left of that, a 1961 Slitz Advertising light. It looks like saturn and when you turn it on, it rotates. It's the coolest damn thing. Will look good in the space age bar I plan on constructing in my basement some day.

Not shown: Whirlpool lighted advertising sign and the Tip-Toe-Matic.

Pretty good day.

 

[petek]

What a score, I particularly like those ashtrays. Those Krispy canisters I've never even heard of, how odd.
I forgot that I also today got a very nice roseville oblong dish B15, and a Shawnee squarish deep dish.. I'll have to check them out because they're not something I'd normally collect, just that the Shawnee is speckled bluish pink and the Roseville has a very nice design on the indside.. I'll get a pic later. Terrible when you buy things and then forget you bought them,, because sitting here I just remembered again I bought a set of 50's glass tumblers in the store presentation box last week and they're still in the rubbermaid container I carted home with the other stuff.. LOL

 

[veg-o-matic]

OoooOOOOOOOoooooohh!

Love that turquoise ashtray. Can just picture stubbing out my Chesterfields in it. And that Lazy Susan in the back! Well, you just can't beat something like that for Gracious Entertaining.

California Dip, anyone?

veg

 

[Versatronic]

The Lazy Susan

The Lazy Susan was not a recent flea market find. I saw it and fell in love with it about 14 years ago. It became the center piece of my kitchen table. Only within the last year did I stumble upon a matching piece. And then another matching piece. All three items are the best. I have no idea who manufactured them, but the colors and designs are the ultimate for the time period. If there are other matching pieces, I want them all.

 

[veg-o-matic]

Vers, if you show a closeup of that Lazy Susan, I'll keep my eyes peeled for matching pieces.

Which reminds me. Need to start a new thread...

veg

 

[Versatronic]

OK, here's the lazy susan

I have some other lazy susans, but nothing compares to this one. The flash bleached out the picture a bit, but I think you can make out the design ok.

 

[Versatronic]

Two Go-With Pieces

Here are two pieces I picked up this year. I saw the piece on the left in version where the bottom piece was pink instead of turquoise. I'll take whatever color you find, though. The piece on the right has bright yellow bakelite balls on the feet which date it pretty well.

I have lots and lots of vintage kitchen stuff, and I have to say, these 3 pieces are my very favorites.

 

[veg-o-matic]

Okay, Vers, got a good picture in my head of the Lazy Susan, et al. Will keep my eyes peeled.

Here's a question for you. And for all the other people who collect vintage smalls: Do you use 'em? On a regular basis, I mean, not just for special occasions.

I use all of mine, in fact I've disposed (one way or another) of all the new-plastic-junk appliances the vintage ones replaced. Even my shaver is from 1972. And the hair dryer I bought Mom is from '67 or thereabouts. Hmmm. Need to post a pic of that.

Now I'm looking for one of the early Crock Pots with the plastic housing and the removable control. Seen 'em in Poppy and Avocado. Neither color is a fave, but that can be fixed, no?

veg

 

[Versatronic]

Not happy

I'll answer your above question is a few minutes, veg, but first, here is one of the scores I had on eBay last week. And this should be a glorious moment, but it's not. I've wanted to get a turquoise colored Waring for a long time. I've seen some of the rocket shaped ones, but the paint was all scratched off. I wanted one in great conditon. So one came up on eBay and I didn't get it cheap. It came in a lot of stuff that I could actually used and didn't mind having, but it was the blender I was after.

Well it didn't survive the trip. The base was just sitting in a box, no protection, no double-boxing, nothing for it to fend of the typically brutal treatment that UPS inflicts on all their packages. I hate them. I don't thing I've ever received anything through UPS that wasn't smashed to bits, the bastards, and their insurance is a joke. I've been through this before. You see, in order to qualify for their "free" insurance, the packaging must strictly follow their guidelines. If the contents of the package breaks, well then it doesn't qualify for insurance. Seriously, if it arrives safely, it qualifies because it was packaged safely. If it doesn't, no insurance, you didn't pack it right.

Bastards.

Oh, and there's a chip off the thing in the back and some splits up through the plastic as well.

Bastards.

Oh, and when you contact the eBay seller, they say "Oh, I can't believe it, and I packaged it so well! Well, just send it back and I refund your purchase purchase." Oh, so I paid for 20 bucks for shipping and 20 bucks to ship it back, I dropped 40 bucks and I have NOTHING to show for it. Yeah, sure, it will be in the mail tomorrow.

"That's what all the major auctioneers do."

Bastards.

In case you haven't already picked it up, get smashed to bit small appliances or other stuff in the mail is a totally common occurence. It happens to me all the time. I expect everything to arrive broken. If it's not broken, I'm overjoyed.

Bastards.

 

[Versatronic]

OK then

Veg said: "Here's a question for you. And for all the other people who collect vintage smalls: Do you use 'em? On a regular basis, I mean, not just for special occasions."

Well, for all intents and purposes, yes. With just one minor exception. If I want to make some toast, I pop the bread into whatever toaster I have out at the time. If I mix up a mai tai or a Blue Hawaiian, I crank up the vintage bar blender. I just made a half a pot of coffee on my vintage West Bend automatic drip coffee maker. Like I need to get more jacked up right now. Should have gone the Blue Hawaiian route. Yeah, I use them all, big or small.

The only exception is when I get the occassional virgin never-used-still-in-the-box finds. With those, I usually keep them unused in the same museum condition. Either I have a beat up back-up of the same item for actual use or grab a different brand/model altogether.

When people come to my house, I get the weirdest questions like "Can I actually use this trash can?" I try to take care of everything but I do use everything.

 

[petek]

What a piss off getting it broken like that. It's one of my fears about buying on ebay. All those years it survived and then broke. Was the seller a regular seller on Ebay?

Do I use all these smalls? I try to, it's going to be easier now that I've got most of them out of boxes etc and easy to grab.

BTW here's a box of glasses I picked up last weekend as well at the flea market.. not sure how old they would be..
Enchant Ware ? Never heard of it

 

[drmitch]

Bump!

Cant get enough of this thread. I only have apic of my moms blender.This was bought back when this kitchen had harvest appliances and even a harvest cast iorn Kohler sink and countertops, but look how well the current colors go with it.I got my flea market model 10 all cleaned up but I left my camera at my aunts house and hav`nt got it back yet. I also got a Rival Juice-O-Mat that was really dirty( Actually left it then thought better and went back and got it) but after cleaning it looks hardly used.

 

[foraloysius]

Not happy too

I bought the blender and the seller mailed me this week he was going to send it to me. I especially requested that he would pack it up real good. He sent it in a box with only a newspaper around the glass jug!!

 

[Versatronic]

Doesn't that make you want to scream?

Newspaper is not an appropriate packing material! How can people be so idiotic? This is what makes buying through eBay so frustrating. You have to plead with the seller to pack well and it still shows up in pieces.

You know those two clocks I showed pictures of that I purchased on-line. One showed up DOA and the seller doesn't respond to my emails. I just had it repaired at a clock shop at my expense.

The second one was not packed and secured properly and the clock works part was completely separated from the rest of it and bouncing around freely in the box. It's just unbelievable how moronic and careless people will be with antiques.

Sorry to hear about your blender.

 

[petek]

Louis,, all is not lost, let me know if you have trouble finding another glass jar, I have plenty of them and can send you a replacement toute suite

 

[foraloysius]

Oh Pete, that is very nice of you!! I don't think I can get any replacement parts here. I will look around and if I can't find anything I will take you up on your offer.

Thanks!

Louis