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This meat mincer is more than 100 years old. It belonged to my mother. She received it as a wedding gift in 1912 but the mincer had previously belonged to another couple, who had also received it as a wedding present. This must have been in the early 1900s in Bradford, West Yorkshire. I now live in Northern Ireland and I still use the meat mincer - I doubt there's a new one on the market that's as good. The meat mincer was made in America and it has the letters No. 1 on it, so I often wonder if this was the first one made! At that time America must have lead the way in producing home gadgets such as this and it shows how their inventiveness and ingenuity for home conveniences was being exported from one side of the Atlantic to the other. Contributed by Harold Leach at the AHOW event in Enniskillen Library.