Monday, October 22, 2012
For sale: Beaten biscuit brake
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You could try to email Mike & Frank from the American Pickers show on the History Channel. Maybe they would make an offer. They have stores in Iowa & Nashville. There is a website. Wouldn't hurt to try.
Thanks, CP. I'm not familiar with that show, but Iowa's fairly close. I'll give it a shot.
I checked. It's worth one million dollars. Hello, Sotheby's!
How much you want for it Cathy?
George, I am still researching prices. Hard to get good comps because they're so rare. In the meantime, will entertain offers.
I only see one for sale each year online. The ones with marble tops tend to go for $400-500, while the biscuit brakes with a wooden top sell for half that, sometime a little more.
It doesn't seem to matter if it's hand crank, or converted to electric, the prices tend to stay strong either way.
And prices are for "in good working order." Brakes that are not functional sell for about 10-15% of the value of one that works.
Cathy, have you decided on a price ? I am interested if you have.
My husband and I have a marble top beaten biscuit. He and his family voted to throw it away and I begged for it. I didn't even know what it was. Took me 20 years before I got it. It has a tin cover that goes over the beater and has the biscuit recipe with it. The Clardy family said this was used to make hardtack during the civil war.
Treva Clardy
Note marble top beaten biscuit maker and it's on a stand like a treadle sewing machine.
Treva Clardy
Nice. We have a very similar Lincoln biscuit maker on loan to our museum
There is a picture of ours in one of the albums in this blog post
http://lakeportplantation.blogspot.com/2012/12/gifts-of-2012.html
Cathy,
Please let me know what you find out. I have a similar table. It has a marble top and a cast iron roller and base with the company name "Lincoln" worked into the cast iron on either end. It comes from Kentucky, originally. I had asked my grandmother for it hoping to continue making beaten biscuits, but after a shoulder surgery it's too difficult to use, so I think I may sell it. I did read somewhere that they were used mainly in the VA tri-state area, and I've found that antique dealers in New England don't have a clue what to think of it!
Elizabeth
I am interested in your biscuit brake also is it still for sale? If so, do you have a sale price?
Is there an update? My grandmother lived in coastal NC. I remember eating beaten biscuits. I was born in 1956 so that should give you and approximate age of the machine. I also remember seeing them "beaten" with a tool that looked like an axe handle before the machine arrived. I LOVE these biscuits with a thin slice of VA ham. I am interested too if the maker works.
Hello!! I am a retired guy who is a hobby cook from Georgia. I grew up with beaten biscuits on Sundays. I would like to buy your machine, if you are ever thinking of selling it. E-mail me at gasang4223@yahoo.com
I too own a biscuit brake. Mine had a marble top, wooden cover, and even the recipe from the original owner. I purchased it years ago in Southwestern Virginia. I would also be interested in selling if I knew it's worth.
Have you sold your brake?
HI, I have one for sale & will take all offers,
http://www.ebay.com/itm/332117396518?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649
I am looking for a beaten biscuit brake. Functional. Please email me if you have one for sale. Thank you, Linda
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