Posted 7 months ago
DoraCreek
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Can anyone tell me what the circled barware item is and what it's used for? The other six items are cocktail sticks.
Update: Thank you to those who solved the mystery, I never would of got there on my own. I sourced a Lemora from Germany and it's been added to it's holding spot in my cocktail cabinet in Australia (photo 4). It also worked beautifully extracting the juice of a lemon; so neat and easy to use.
Can you pull it out and give us a separate picture? My guess..maybe a pitter? I was thinking zestee at first. Could be a muddler? Need to see it better..
**zester** sorry we can't correct our comments..
Thanks dav2no1 for your comments. I don't actually have the item. I have purchased an identical cocktail cabinet but it didn't come with any of the accessories, just the clips to hang them by. I'm hoping to find replacements ... once I found out what this one is. Fingers crossed.
DoraCreek, I think I may have stumbled on a twin or near twin:
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Item Reference: Lemora Cocktail Tool
Description: A rare cocktail tool for juicing lemons.
Works by pushing stem into lemon.
Withdraw stem and squeeze lemon.
Country of Origin: England.
Manufacturers Marks: LEMORA - Hallmarked for Birmingham, UK - Registration No753835
Date: 1930
Size: Length 4 inches.
*snip*
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1166864051/vintage-silver-lemora-cocktail-tool
Excellent job Kera..
dav2no1, Thanks, but it was really a bit of serendipity.
Google Lens didn't help, except to find the ones DoraCreek had already found, and those don't tell you what the dang thing is, so then I went to Google Images, and started looking at "1940s vintage cocktail tools."
That wasn't going well initially, and I got distracted by something else. I pulled myself out of that rabbit hole about a half hour later, glanced a bit further down the page of Google Image hits, and BAM! there it was. >8-0
Farther. Yeah, I'm grammar queening myself. };-)
interesting : )
patent info:
http://www.juicercollector.com/Juicers/Old_Juicers_1051.htm
Kera - I fell down the same rabbit hole and looked at cabinets and bar tools. It kinda reminded me of a core tool for fruit.
TallCakes, Very cool. :-)
I found the patent in espacenet:
https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/009875595/publication/GB350094A?q=GB350094A
dav2no1, I never would have guessed what it was.
Bravo keramikos and TallCakes!!! Thank you both for solving this. I'm grateful for your inquisitive minds and detective skills.
DoraCreek, You're welcome. :-)
Judging from the link provided by TallCakes, different versions of varying metal content were made, so it might have been a fairly common bar tool back in the 1930s and 1940s -- at least for the better off set.
I can see why dav2no1 might have though it was some variety of a coring tool, but about the only fruit I can think of that might need coring and is a common cocktail addition is pineapple. OK, that could be just my own druthers. };-)
It certainly bears no resemblance to the manual juicers I'm used to seeing; however, maybe this circular doodad that Google Lens turned up should have been a clue:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/199002877259550111/
The mysterious vintage items that get posted here at CW S&T increasingly make me wonder what items commonly in use in the early twenty-first century will cause head-scratching among the citizens of the twenty-second century.
A little mood music:
Harry Nilsson - Coconut (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsSuueEGQSM