antique Rollman Food Chopper #11 small nut grinder cast iron

Description

Rollman Food Chopper #11
over 120 years old!
Nut Chopper
7” tall
1.5” intake opening
I’m closing up my 87 year old, electrical engineer, father’s house. But this grinder is much older than him. Based on the dates I’ve found this must be from his grandmother. I don’t remember seeing this small one around the house but I remember a bigger one that my mother used to make large amounts of homemade cranberry salad and other things that required grinding.
Regardless of what other ebay sales read, this is not a toy or a min-salesman’s sample. Model #11 is just a very small grinder that was easier to carry and used for grinding smaller amounts.
Although it reads “Rollman Food Chopper #11” on the item, I found a museum acquisition listing which calls it a nut grinder and reads:
Nut grinder, 'No 11 Rollman, cast iron / wood, made by Rollman Manufacturing Company, America, 1880-1900.
A manually operated nut grinder consisting of a cast iron frame into which the spiral cast iron grinding mechanism is inserted. The grinding mechanism turns using a cast iron crank with a wooden handle located on one side of the frame. At the base of the frame is a screw allowing the grinder to be clamped to a table or work surface. The grinder casing is hinged so the grinding mechanism can be removed for cleaning.
Unlike modern items these things are bulletproof and will seemingly never break. Still works fine and looks fine.
No handling charge. Buyer pays actual shipping costs in the continental US.
I only ship once a week. Please do not expect this to arrive tomorrow. Particularly since the post office has gotten very erratic (and so have I).
International bidders will pay actual shipping costs which are shockingly, staggeringly, prohibitively expensive.