| This Antique Gilchrist No 3 Brass & Maple Ice Cream Scoop hails from Newark, New Jersey, where the Gilchrist Company was founded in 1902. Raymond B. Gilchrist had a very successful business and manufactured specialty items for soda fountains, such as ice cream scoops, cork pullers, and ice picks. He invented and patented many very well designed ice cream scoops that were so well marketed that they quickly became the most popular for their era. This Antique Gilchrist No 3 Brass & Maple Ice Cream Scoop measures, 10.75 inches H X 03.25 inches W X 01.50 inches D, and has a brass and maple handle, a size 20 marked inside the scoop and shaft, which indicates the number of scoops one can get from one quart of ice cream, and Gilchrist No 3 indicated on its lever and shaft. |
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