Need Help – What is this?

[ssmantua]

http://imgur.com/a/aNp0O

Thoughts? Used, but barely used, For how much should I list it for?

Thanks! 🙂

[Terri]

Hand crank cheese grater inserts.

[Jay]

Agreed. I have no idea what brand/model these are for, but it’d probably be for something like this:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/BERARDUCCI-Vintage-Cheese-Grater-Cast-Aluminum-Stainless-Steel-drum-/152110913641?hash=item236a845869:g:FXsAAOSwY0lXTht6

I wouldn’t think these are worth that much unless you could identify the brand.

[Winchester38]

Looks like cutting/chopping/etc attachments for a mixmaster/mixer. I remember my mother having/using these years ago.

[Winchester38]

If you search for “Kitchen Aid rotor slicer attachments” on google, you’ll see what I was thinking. Looks right to me.

[MDC Galleries & Fine Art]

Our databases we use show these are the attachments for a kitchen grinder. They are the fore runner of the modern day food processors. They are part of a unit that is attached to a counter top, usually by way of a screw which when turned applies upward pressure and secures the unit to the “lip / overhang edge” of a formica counter top. They are made under the following names. Healthy Gourmet, King Kutter, Salad Master, Rival, Vintage Magic and Dazey Universal.
Our databases show the complete units, [base, handle and 5 various slicing/dicing. shredding cups] selling for $20.00 to $49 over the past few years. Then we see some of the older, more collectible vintage models selling as complete units [base, handle, & cups] for $40 to $99 dollars, but again they are the complete units.

As far as age goes, stainless steel is hard to say on age and how much used. New stainless could get scratched up pretty bad in a short time. Older stainless could have been used a lot and only washed by hand with soap and a wash cloth. So careful on saying “not used very much”. You really don’t know.

Now as Jay always says trying figuring out what keywords a potential customer will use to look for your item and do some Google research. Also use Google’s Image Search feature. You can even photo your item, drag your photo into Google Search and it will look for and present to you images that it thinks are a match. Not accurate many times, but just another tool. And if you are going to be a serious re-seller of older vintage things, I suggest two or three paid subscriptions to various databases, like we do, which will show you photos, descriptions and prices of items sold. We have access to items sold over the past 10 years. Ebay’s 90 day “SOLD” listings are not a comprehensive go to choice at least for us.

Here is what you are also going to be looking for to qualify the age, what they are and which models. Obviously look for any markings on the unit. Then put a magnic up against them and see if “steel” they will be magnetic, if alloy [more modern] the magnet won’t stick. The various models do have some degree of various “angles” to them the slant or slope]. Also I see six rectangular notches, some have more and some less. I see a center round hole, some have a center rectangle and some have a small notch on them. Yours have a depression around the center hole and “dimples” in the side “spokes” so to speak, indicating some type of stamping or pressure applied when the hole was made. Some have welded flat area onto the cylinder. The stamping would indicate thinner gauge metal which would allow stamp forming to take place. Older units have thicker metal which indicates older forming techniques such as casting or forging.

So as a vintage re-seller all of these types of observation skills need to be learned and many things need to be considered and observed in any vintage item in order to locate it’s place in time, country or origin, which units separate parts go to, in turn then, which units are the $100 units vs. the $19 dollar units or the rare collector items.

This now leaves me at the point of wanting to tackle Etsy on their detailing, policing of and validating “Vintage ITems” at a 20 year old bench mark. But that is a discussion for another time and place, bt it will come. Look for it. 🙂

mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta….

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[Nancy]

We had one of these when I was a kid. Cheese is only one of the many many things these are used for. They are used to grate and slice. Potatoes for hash browns, cabbage for cole slaw, carrots, cucumbers etc. They can be worth good money. You have the attachments. It’s somewhat a forerunner to the food processor 🙂 I would use keywords like vegetable, grater, stainless steel, attachments, cutter, slicer, vintage, cones

Ours was not attached to the counter. It had a suction cup under the base to keep it in one place.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=salad+king+grater&_sop=16

and solds

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_sop=16&_nkw=salad%20king%20grater&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc&_trksid=p2045573.m1684

• This reply was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by Nancy.
• This reply was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by Nancy.

[ssmantua]

Thanks for all your replies, very helpful, really appreciate it! 🙂

[Cindi]

These are Kitchenaide cheese graters and slicers. I have a Kitchenaide and have these attachments.

[JJCatfinder]

You might list them anyway. It looks like those full sets including the machine are selling for $40-55. If someone has the main grinder part but not the attachments, they might be looking for them to complete their set. You could put all of the names in the heading KitchenAid Salad King — etc. and let them decide which one they match up too.

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