egg beater

Vintage mechanical hand-crank rotary egg beater. Features turned wooden main and side-crank handles painted in distressed red. Consists of a central metal frame housing a large main drive gear wheel with cut gear teeth, connected to small pinions that drive twin counter-rotating loop beaters made of curved stainless steel/iron strips. A small paper collection sticker reading « 449 » is affixed near the metal ferrule collar, and a tied twine loop hangs from the frame.