Thanks for posting this thread! The seller you linked is correct; intact pie cutters are RARE! I have bought and sold dozens of large cents that were modified for use in pie cutters, but never owned an original assembly. I may have to buy one of his cutters! Maybe I will give it a whirl on my next apple pie.......for the sake of posterity.
would you use it for a pie crimper jade if you won the auction?????????
oh and your website that new redesigned site is really superb you outdid yourself with that site!!!
i love these early large cents with the gear like serrations around the edges
and it looks like they where used to crimp many pies
i think that they should be in any seriousa large cent collectors household and him or his family should be making from scratch homemade pies for use with this crimper
i think that two large cent crimpers are worth in the 150-250 dollar range
also be careful these have been modified as of late but both of these items look to be original
which most likely they are!! i would love to see both sight seen!!!
usually of you find geared holed large cents they are of this date range if not later!!
I owned (oops, still do, it lives in my piggy bank) an 1838 for years, nice EF, "gear" edge and that is what I thought it was for many years, even though I knew deep inside copper was not a good material for gears. Then, perhaps 20 or so years ago at a fleamarket in rural NY I found an intact pie-crimper and I was in numismatic heaven because I finally knew the truth about my 1838, the seller of course knew that his large cent contraption had to be worth hundreds and hundreds of dollars because it was such a rare coin, and he may still have it as I figured it at $30 or so all those years ago, he scoffed and told me to beat it, I knew nothing about coins obviously! Anyway, these are neat and oh-so-collectable in my book!
As a detectorist, I have heard of many "gear-edged" large cents and colonial coins being found (though not by me personally). However, most of these were made into "buzzers"- a childrens' toy- they had two holes in the middle, like a button, and when twirled around on a string, the serrated edges on the coin would make a buzzing sound.
there is an eac member that had the large cent gear collection on display at the last eac annual convention last march/april? in annipolis he had collectoed them for some years and he called me and we talked some on these interesting pieces of early american inguinity and history and made as useful items where you did not have a hardware store to buy as such
necessity is the mother of invention
it was also on the program of the convention also thsi mans name and exhibit
and i hear it was cool
now here where i live in western ny state and my family is frpom upstate ny above albany since the early 1700's well actually 1688 mohawk valley these large cents made into gears for lack of a better term where made in quantity in the first quarter of the 19th century or waht was considered quantity back then and they where made by inmates in the prisons and for what reason i do not know why and i would think many more than waht is out there now would have survived but i think they do not
who knows why?/ melting or whatever
they do occasionally turn up and as a kid many decades ago i used to collect and study as such but with no internet google and no one to talk to as a kid it fell by the wayside for me
these pie crimpers are really scarce and historical and i can imagine many great pies made with this impliment
wow what a wonderful delicious treat with much work involved to make and bake
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Thanks for posting this thread! The seller you linked is correct; intact pie cutters are RARE! I have bought and sold dozens of large cents that were modified for use in pie cutters, but never owned an original assembly. I may have to buy one of his cutters! Maybe I will give it a whirl on my next apple pie.......for the sake of posterity.
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i love it and really as jades comments !!!!!!!!
would you use it for a pie crimper jade if you won the auction?????????
oh and your website that new redesigned site is really superb you outdid yourself with that site!!!
i love these early large cents with the gear like serrations around the edges
and it looks like they where used to crimp many pies
i think that they should be in any seriousa large cent collectors household and him or his family should be making from scratch homemade pies for use with this crimper
i think that two large cent crimpers are worth in the 150-250 dollar range
also be careful these have been modified as of late but both of these items look to be original
which most likely they are!! i would love to see both sight seen!!!
usually of you find geared holed large cents they are of this date range if not later!!
Hell, I don't need to exercise.....I get enough just pushing my luck.
As a detectorist, I have heard of many "gear-edged" large cents and colonial coins being found (though not by me personally). However, most of these were made into "buzzers"- a childrens' toy- they had two holes in the middle, like a button, and when twirled around on a string, the serrated edges on the coin would make a buzzing sound.
Or something like that.
I like oddball stuff like that.
A little pricey though.
necessity is the mother of invention
it was also on the program of the convention also thsi mans name and exhibit
and i hear it was cool
now here where i live in western ny state and my family is frpom upstate ny above albany since the early 1700's well actually 1688 mohawk valley these large cents made into gears for lack of a better term where made in quantity in the first quarter of the 19th century or waht was considered quantity back then and they where made by inmates in the prisons and for what reason i do not know why and i would think many more than waht is out there now would have survived but i think they do not
who knows why?/ melting or whatever
they do occasionally turn up and as a kid many decades ago i used to collect and study as such but with no internet google and no one to talk to as a kid it fell by the wayside for me
these pie crimpers are really scarce and historical and i can imagine many great pies made with this impliment
wow what a wonderful delicious treat with much work involved to make and bake
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