Antique Daisy Dazey Glass Butter Churn No 20 St Louis MO Patented Feb 14, 1922
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Antique Dazey Glass Butter Churn No 20 St Louis MO Patented Feb 14, 1922
Very Clean, Wooden Paddles are good shape Mechanism Work smoothly and easily, Original Glass Jar has chip in one spot a rim see picture. Still has a little of the original finish on the Mechanism. Nickel plating inside is still good shape.
A little history of Dazey Mfg Co.Dazey butter churnThe confluence of two mighty rivers, the Mississippi and the Missouri, assured the success of the city o...f St. Louis, established by the French during the mid-1700s as a fur trading post. After the U.S. gained ownership in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase, settlers began trickling west into the new territory.
Following the War of 1812, that trickle became a flood. Since the Missouri River was the portal to the West, St. Louis became known as the “Gateway to the West.” After the Civil War, St. Louis grew to become the fourth largest city in the country. By the 1880s, it was a center of breweries, flour mills, tobacco products and slaughterhouses.
Dazey finds his nicheMeanwhile, in Fort Worth, Texas, a young man named Nathan P. Dazey was learning the hardware business. His earliest recorded job (that I can find) was in 1879 as a salesman for Havens & Cowing, which specialized in hardware, stoves and tinware. In 1887, he turned up in nearby Dallas working as a clerk at Harry Bros., a hardware store that sold stoves, tinware and all kinds of home furnishings and provided services such as roofing and sheet iron work.
Apparently, the Panic of 1893 hit Dallas hard, as it did many cities, and business and industry there slowed dramatically. While it’s unknown what became of Harry Bros., in 1901 Dazey was managing a house furnishings and notions store in Dallas called Doolittle & Simpson. Information is sketchy, but apparently he began to make can openers and probably other kitchenware items and became interested in a glass jar churn developed by E.B. Jones. It seems Jones’ health wasn’t good and Dazey felt his churn had merit, so in 1904 Dazey took over management of the company as well as a controlling interest.
Dazey improved the Jones churn with different paddles and in May 1906 applied for a patent on a “new and useful” churn. This churn was square and not necessarily made of glass, and featured the milk receptacle inside a larger enclosure that “[provided] means for hot or cold water [to] temper the milk in the body.” In other words, the outer container could be filled with warm water in cold weather and cold water in warm weather, thus improving the churning action. At some point the outer water receptacle was discontinued.
Dazey Churn & Mfg. Co., St. LouisAt about the same time, Dazey moved the firm to St. Louis, possibly for greater ease of obtaining the necessary castings or maybe to take advantage of the more extended transportation network available there by rail and water.
Not long after the move, Jones sold his interest in the firm to Dazey, who then took in a man named Pollvogt as partner. Nothing can be found about Mr. Pollvogt, but he later sold his interest in the firm for what was reportedly a handsome profit.
By 1910, Nathan Dazey’s son, Jack, entered the firm and the business grew by leaps and bounds with various sizes of churns added to the lineup. By the time of World War I, Dazey was offering large electric churns in addition to the hand-operated models. One source says that when a wartime butter shortage occurred, Dazey came up with a Dazey butter churn that used one pound of butter and one pound of milk to produce two pounds of butter, but I can find nothing to verify that.
Very Clean, Wooden Paddles are good shape Mechanism Work smoothly and easily, Original Glass Jar has chip in one spot a rim see picture. Still has a little of the original finish on the Mechanism. Nickel plating inside is still good shape.
A little history of Dazey Mfg Co.Dazey butter churnThe confluence of two mighty rivers, the Mississippi and the Missouri, assured the success of the city o...f St. Louis, established by the French during the mid-1700s as a fur trading post. After the U.S. gained ownership in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase, settlers began trickling west into the new territory.
Following the War of 1812, that trickle became a flood. Since the Missouri River was the portal to the West, St. Louis became known as the “Gateway to the West.” After the Civil War, St. Louis grew to become the fourth largest city in the country. By the 1880s, it was a center of breweries, flour mills, tobacco products and slaughterhouses.
Dazey finds his nicheMeanwhile, in Fort Worth, Texas, a young man named Nathan P. Dazey was learning the hardware business. His earliest recorded job (that I can find) was in 1879 as a salesman for Havens & Cowing, which specialized in hardware, stoves and tinware. In 1887, he turned up in nearby Dallas working as a clerk at Harry Bros., a hardware store that sold stoves, tinware and all kinds of home furnishings and provided services such as roofing and sheet iron work.
Apparently, the Panic of 1893 hit Dallas hard, as it did many cities, and business and industry there slowed dramatically. While it’s unknown what became of Harry Bros., in 1901 Dazey was managing a house furnishings and notions store in Dallas called Doolittle & Simpson. Information is sketchy, but apparently he began to make can openers and probably other kitchenware items and became interested in a glass jar churn developed by E.B. Jones. It seems Jones’ health wasn’t good and Dazey felt his churn had merit, so in 1904 Dazey took over management of the company as well as a controlling interest.
Dazey improved the Jones churn with different paddles and in May 1906 applied for a patent on a “new and useful” churn. This churn was square and not necessarily made of glass, and featured the milk receptacle inside a larger enclosure that “[provided] means for hot or cold water [to] temper the milk in the body.” In other words, the outer container could be filled with warm water in cold weather and cold water in warm weather, thus improving the churning action. At some point the outer water receptacle was discontinued.
Dazey Churn & Mfg. Co., St. LouisAt about the same time, Dazey moved the firm to St. Louis, possibly for greater ease of obtaining the necessary castings or maybe to take advantage of the more extended transportation network available there by rail and water.
Not long after the move, Jones sold his interest in the firm to Dazey, who then took in a man named Pollvogt as partner. Nothing can be found about Mr. Pollvogt, but he later sold his interest in the firm for what was reportedly a handsome profit.
By 1910, Nathan Dazey’s son, Jack, entered the firm and the business grew by leaps and bounds with various sizes of churns added to the lineup. By the time of World War I, Dazey was offering large electric churns in addition to the hand-operated models. One source says that when a wartime butter shortage occurred, Dazey came up with a Dazey butter churn that used one pound of butter and one pound of milk to produce two pounds of butter, but I can find nothing to verify that.
