Topic: Milk jug - Silver plated on plastic pouring lid

[Otis Orlando]

An usual looking piece.  The jug measures 11cm in height with lid.  The bottle itself is textured on the outside in small pyramid patterns that run concentric.  The lid screws on to the top part of the bottle.  The lid itself is designed with a spring action mechanism that sits above the handle.  Whilst holding the handle and pressing the leaver downwards opens  the front part of the lid which allows liquids to be poured out.  When hand is removed the pouring part of the lid is sealed.  I have not seen anything like this before and require your expertise in identifying originator.  Can anyone help please.  kind regards.

[Carolyn Preston]

Have you never been to a pancake house? Very popular style of syrup container used in such places (as far as Western Canada is concerned) as Smitty's and Phil's Pancake House. Dating back as far as the '60's I believe.

Carolyn

[Otis Orlando]

Pancake House?  I have never heard of it. Is there any useful sites that would give me info. on?  Oh! and many thanks Carolyn for your valuable information.

[Carolyn Preston]

I would hit up a restaurant supply site or two, and then start looking at their manufacturers. And you really must try out a pancake restaurant if you can. They're lovely.

In the States, think IHOP (International House of Pancakes).

Carolyn

[Otis Orlando]

Many thanks! Carolyn.  I certainly have got some work to do :24:

[langhaugh]

Good eye, Carolyn. Is it a field of interest? I think I may do some field studies this week. IHOP, I think.

Good luck, Otis, on finding out much more. There are people who collect kitchen and restaurant materials but I've not seen much evidence of anyone specializing in maple syrup dispensers. If you Google the term or look for it on eBay you'll get a few examples. It looks like 50's 60's to me, too.

BTW, pancakes are for breakfast in North America.

David

[Lustrousstone]

I think Otis is in the UK from the stuff he keeps putting on, so I would suggest that this is a milk jug. (We don't pour syrup here in the UK and we can't afford maple syrup LOL). Here, in the charity shops, we see glass jugs with green plastic lids with some sort of trademark that suggests hygiene. I think this is a "posh" take on those to be used on the table take.

[langhaugh]

My Mum had a maple syrup dispenser in Scotland, sent by relatives in Canada along with a supply of Mapline, a synthetic concentrate use to make maple syrup. That said, it would be a surprise if a syrup dispenser found its way into Otis's hands. In North America, that whole spring mechanism atop the jug just screams maple syrup.

Have you seen something similar on other creamers, Christine?

David (who says good night to Christine who has just finished her morning coffee, cream poured from a very unusual creamer, but with no pancakes and definitely no maple syrup).

[Lustrousstone]

Morning David, tea and muesli here (milk from the carton  :24: )

[Carolyn Preston]

Sure enough, when I was at Phil's for dinner/meeting the other day (wednesday? it's all a blur) one of my friends was presented with three (count'em three) of these small jars, one with maple syrup, one with a fruit syrup and one with who know's what. Personally, I was satisfying a potato pancake craving, so it was apple sauce and sour cream for me.

Carolyn