Food Choppers

[Sauconian]

I have small collections of many things that I find interesting, but most now in some way relate to life in rural Pennsylvania during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. Stoneware and redware pottery, slate, tin, iron, and paper ephemera.

Pictured is a hand wrought food chopper, with the tapered tangs peened into a handle of hickory wood. This is one of several I've owned, which escaped being sold with the others by hiding behind a tinsmith made sausage stuffer.

In the late 19th & early 20th centuries, many different designs of these choppers were manufactured, and some of these may be confused with tobacco knives, leather workers tools, or ulus.

Choppers like this were often used with a wooden bowl much like we now employ food processors or a grinder.

Fran

[Gunsmoke47]

That is pretty cool Fran. No patent date or makers mark? Kelley

[Sauconian]

No marks Kelly. This one is blacksmith made. Jonnnie F. has a couple of early manufactured ones in another post.

Fran

[jonet143]

cool, fran.