Strange metal man - chef? Purpose?

Apologies if I posted one of these a long time ago. I thought I only had one and now I found this. I sold the other one on Ebay maybe ten years ago before I quit selling there. I searched everywhere and someone told me it was a metal figure from a carnival shooting gallery and that's what I sold it as. Much later someone came along and said, no, it was a holder for an oven thermometer used by bakers. I can't believe I found a second one and still don't know what the heck it is.

Any help appreciated.

 

I THINK it's an EARLY Poppin' Fresh Dough Boy!!!! But other than that, dunno!!!

 

Interesting little man. Since he looks like the Pillsbury Dough Boy - you would think some sort of baking item
I don't know about thermometer. Although he could stand on the rack. The holes don't look consistent for holding a round thermometer like what we are used to using.

My father in law made an oven rack puller where you slipped the wire into the slot to pull the rack out rather than using a potholder.

 

HMMMMM.....the bottom of him DOES look line a current oven thermometer stand... Bev, how tall is he???

 

Yes, but if you attach the thermometer using those holes, it will cover his face. Defeats the purpose of using a cute little dough boy.

 

Aqui - have you had your coffee?
There is a ruler in the picture.

 

HAHAHA!!! YEAH, but only 1 cup!!!! 8"....WOW, that's tall....guessing probably NOT for the oven then!!! I'll ask DH....he's WAAAAY older than me....4 1/2 yrs!!!!!

 

That is cute as a button. At first I thought it had to do with thermometer too.
Hope someone knows.

 

@Bev aka thelmasstuff! They don't have an email address, but they DO have a phone number and a regular SNAIL MAIL address.....you can give them (THEM being Pillsbury Co.!) a shout-out with a couple of images! IF you choose to!! Lord only knows if you'll hear from them!! But here it is: (And Good Luck if you do!!!)
You know we'd LOVE to know if you DO hear from them!!!!

Got a question, compliment or complaint for our company or our products? We'd love to hear from you.


By Phone:


1- 800-767-4466


By Mail:


Hometown Food Company
500 W. Madison Street
Chicago, IL 60661
M-F , 8AM - 5PM ET

 

So I was curious what he looked like upside down.
Suppose the thermometer could have gone where the face would be.
This way he would have hung from the rack and not sat on it.
But what are all the holes for?
And when I went to draw the top two lines, you can see a faint outline of a circle at the top. The bottom line is a suggestion of where the therm might have stopped.
I'm not saying this is the correct way, I'm just playing with the picture.

 

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! You're gonna love this....toldja DH was OLDER than me!!!! HIS HIGHLY OFFICIAL response was: "IT'S A FOOTBALL OFFICIAL AND HE'S SIGNALLING A 'TOUCHDOWN'".......I ain't got nuttin' else to say.....

Except, @clutteredcloset49 may have a MUCH MORE VALID answer!!!

 

Hm, the above is for the Pillsbury Baking website (https://www.pillsburybaking.com/), and that might be the best, but...
The Pillsbury Company also has a separate website at https://www.pillsbury.com/ The Contact link on that site refers correspondence to General Mills, the parent company: https://contactus.generalmills.com/

My guess is that since Pillsbury is a large company that is owned by even a larger corporation, they might have a corporate archivist who could do the historical research necessary to figure out what this is.

 

I found some information about the General Mills corporate archives. It came from the following page https://www2.archivists.org/groups/...-archives-in-the-united-states-and-canada-g-h:

General Mills, Inc.

Minneapolis, MN

Contact: Natasha Bruns, Corporate Archivist

E-Mail: Archives.Department@genmills.com

Type of Business: Food industry

Hours of Service: 9am-4pm

Conditions of Access: Closed to the public

Holdings: 1866-present

Total Volume: 3,000 cubic feet

Description: The General Mills Corporate Archives serves as a secure repository for historically significant, non-current records documenting the founding, development, organization, management and achievements of General Mills, the Washburn Crosby Company, the Pillsbury Company, and their subsidiaries( collectively known as GMI).



Updated February 7, 2019

 

WELL, LOOKKEE WHAT I JUST FOUND....THE AUCTION IS OVER, BUT HERE IS A PAIR OF YOUR GUY, The item was from the Tony Urso Estate, as stated in the link below.....but they also didn't seem to know anything much about the item!!!!

https://lenhartauction.hibid.com/ca...ques-and-collectibles/#auction-header-content @Bev aka thelmasstuff :

 

Maybe they multiply when exposed to heat?

 

shouldn't he should have a scarf on if he was the Pillsbury doughboy?

 

I don't think he is the doughboy BWDIK. I looked at it so long it started to look like a rabbit with 2 ears sticking up.

 

I called him a rabbit man in my original description! I am so bummed out that I sold the other one not knowing I had the mate. This is what happens. My parents had a second hand store and when my Dad had a stroke, they had to move down here with me. They packed up the house and store in a hurry so everything is jumbled together. I found one of a set of handmade copper bookends of the Old Man of the Mountains a few years ago and gave it to my son. Imagine my surprise last week when delving into another box I found the mate! He's very happy I didn't get rid of the first one as I had intended.