Turquoise GE Hand Mixer

[tennblondie78]

I got this mixer yesterday and was wondering if anyone on the forum knew approximately what year it's from. Also, is the knife sharpener attachment hard to find? I thought that was an interesting attachment to add to a hand mixer... I would have never thought of doing that!!

 

[tennblondie78]

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[tennblondie78]

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[firedome]

Looks mint!

This is my favorite hand mixer design-wise, we have one not quite as nice and no sharpener, nice find... around 1960-61 just a guess, I'm sure someone here knows!

 

[tomturbomatic]

The lines and the rear end have always reminded me of a Thunderbird. As to the knife sharpener, you just keep looking. Search on eBay. Decades ago, I found the mixer at The Women's Exchange in Sarasota and then, just before I left for home, I found the knife sharpener at kind of junky thrift store a few blocks to the west. Before the Internet and eBay, Sarasota was a real hub for treasures. People with money had nice things and when death took them, they, like water that stops flowing, dropped what they were shlepping through life. I found the anodized aluminum filter pan for a GE FF in the trash out behind the Saint Vincent de Paul thriftshop. All kinds of wonderful things used to show up for me when I was there.

 

[paulg]

Don't know for sure but...

That body style of mixer ran until at least 1974. The 1974 catalog in front of me shows the colors available were Avocado, White and Harvest. "Beater Ejector" was no longer embossed by 1972.
The wonderful turquoise color screams 1960s but I can't tell the exact date. Hmm. Can someone decode the serial number?

 

[kenmoreguy89]

Lovable, I was about purchasing one too then money issues stopped me, I have to control myself! I got to delay the purchase for undefined time later for my sake, i think I am getting a compulsive online shopper....but sure I will someday! Just have to calm down with expenses.
, I do not need one actually, as all I use at home and need of for daily driver is my beloved sunbeam mixmaster, but thought it would be useful, to carry around when I cook at friends' place, since nobody ever have one ( they do not bake or cook much infact)....
Beautiful portable mixer! Sure, one of my favourites![this post was last edited: 4/23/2014-18:34]

 

[danemodsandy]

Cut to the Chase!

Here's the sharpener attachment on eBay - $9.99 Buy It Now price, plus $7.95 shipping.

Someone who knows more about these sharpeners than I should advise about the condition of the shaft; it looks like there could be damage, or maybe not.

Anyway, there's one out there for you if you want it:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Unused-Retr...all_Kitchen_Appliances_US&hash=item27da737042

 

[petek]

I have a couple of the sharpeners and they're both white. I've never seen otherwise. The coupler on the end of the shaft is flexible (like a mini joystick). The one in the picture above looks fine.

 

[tennblondie78]

Thank You!!!

I bought it.

 

[tennblondie78]

Thank You!!!

I bought it.

 

[danemodsandy]

Stephanie:

Glad I could help a little.

 

[danemodsandy]

Stephanie:

Glad I could help a little.

 

[gansky1]

Sweet turquoise ! I've never looked closely at the coupling on the sharpener, but it makes sense having seen the mixer innards.

While this is my favorite hand mixer brand and style, I've only found this one afflicted with harvest gold. Clean, lubed and running well, it's really my least favorite color in the appliance realm so it's home is on the pegboard in the garage. I grab it now and then, they are fun to use for smaller mixing jobs.

 

[mattl]

I got a chuckle out of the box.  I wonder if it came in a Deluxe version or a Standard.  Looks like they used a stamp to put the Super Deluxe on a generic box.  Nice unit though...

 

[norgeway]

Im pretty sure..

These came out in 59, and were made forever! Good mixer!

 

[tomturbomatic]

Greg, Your mixer looks more yellow than harvest gold. If you thought of it as yellow, would you like it better?

I have a GE-Universal hand-held mixer from the early 70s that has a set of nylon beaters in addition to the steel ones. It is used a couple of times a year, but I like the nylon beaters because they do not scratch any vessel in which they are used. After GE bought Universal, they came out with the GE-Universal gift line of appliances that had special boxes and features. We had them for sale one year at Rich's and after the Christmas season, they were at the January warehouse sale. I got the big waffle iron and the mixer. The Toaster Oven had a beige color porcelain door. I guess that in the wake of the energy crisis and soaring energy prices, people were not in the mood for fancier small electrics, although the large square waffle iron that had been Universal's design was larger than GE's rectangular design.

 

[mixguy]

Super Deluxe & Custom

During this time 1960-68, GE offered two portable mixer models the Super Deluxe M 47 and the Custom M 67. Both had the same 100 watt motor inside, and open handle design having a similar shape and curve. The M 47 was available with a drink mixer and knife sharpener attachments. The Custom came only in white and the Super Deluxe was available in the popular kitchen colors of the day white canary yellow, turquoise (aqua), petal pink, sandlewood (beige), later avocado, harvest gold, & flame. GE re-issued the Deluxe model later w/o the knife sharpener and no access hole to the rear of the housing to accept one if purchased separately. GE was the first manufacturer to make portable mixers having a plastic outer housing. GE's research and development division was busy perfecting plastics to make appliance parts. Starting with their model M 15 hand mixer they added features such as detachable cord and a thumb tip beater ejector next to the speed control and created M 17 modifying the same appliance housing.

 

[ovrphil]

Excellent, Stephanie - I have the yellow one - but would like more - one of my favorite designs. Is your kitchen with turquoise accents or appliances?

PHil

 

[tennblondie78]

I wish...

I love turquoise. I would love to have turquoise appliances, and may change them out one day. I am slowly working turquoise through my house in bits and pieces. I'm just drawn to it.

 

[pulltostart]

Greg, I'm thinking the one you have is Yellow. Is the cord for your mixer white or color-coordinated to the body of the mixer? I think by the time they switched to HG they used a colored metal plate on the mixer rather than the grey metal plate.

I just sold two of these in preparation for moving - a turquoise and a yellow, both with matching cord. Then turned right around and bought this one to coordinate with "Big Red" in the Mobile kitchen.

lawrence