Antique Universal Food Chopper No. 1 L.F. & C with Grinder Attachments

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Antique Universal Food Chopper No. 1 L.F. & C with Grinder Attachments
Steel in good condition with oxidation patina. Includes three blade attachments for coarse, medium, and nut butter (fine) grinding.
Manufactured by Landers, Frary & Clark, New Britain, Conn., U.S.A.
The Universal Food Chopper was first sold in 1897 by Landers, Frary & Clark was a housewares company based in New Britain, Connecticut. It proved to be so popular that the company still offered it in its catalog over 60 years later. It was marketed as a device that not only ground meat, but also processed vegetables. In a 1955 address to an audience in Connecticut the company's then chairman of the board remarked that, with the introduction of the Universal Food Chopper to American kitchens in the late 1800s, "Odds and ends could be turned into hashes and casseroles with ease..."
L.F. & C. operated from 1865 until its assets were sold to the General Electric company in 1965.
They manufactured a wide variety of products over the years, including stainless steel bull-nose rings and electric ranges, kitchen scales and vacuum bottles, window hardware and ice skates, mouse traps and percolators, can openers, corkscrews, cutlery, straight razors, aluminum cookware, and thousands of other products. Many of these items were marketed under the brand Universal.