Description: Vintage table meat grinder mincer from the 1960s, including the 4 original discs for different meat cuts.

Brand: Spong & co

Model: 705

Material: Cast Iron

Made in: England Basildon Essex

Period: 60’s

Condition: Good vintage condition, fully functional

Dimensions: 17.5cm H x 24cm L x 10cm W

How to use: Has a grey rubber suction base, place the mincer on the countertop and turn the handle on the base and the rubber suctions on to the work surface like a limpet.

History: “1856 At the age of 16, James Osborn founded Spong and Co, a company manufacturing hardware and wirework, making economic household utensils or, as they were then called, "domestic machinery".

1882 Spong and Co proved to be manufacturing leaders in their field boasting sales of 200,000 mincers by 1882. They could boast that their mincing machine was owned by Her Most Gracious Queen Victoria, the Admiralty and the War Office, and could be found in the mansions of the nobility, the mess-rooms of the army and navy at home and abroad, also in the universities, colleges and many other great institutions of England.

The company founded by James Osborn Spong continued to grow. Through his company, he left a huge legacy to kitchen equipment and utensils and are now best known for their kitchen utensils, especially the mincing machine and bean slicer, that were obligatory pieces of kitchen equipment to have until the development of electrical equipment for modern kitchens. Spong and Co manufactured machinery that ‘promoted domestic economy’, an essential factor for the emerging Victorian middle class who did not have the unlimited funds for employing numerous household servants.” (via https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Spong_and_Co)

Stockist: Porto, Portugal