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Post by dorothyoz on May 29, 2014 3:04:10 GMT -5
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Post by pooka on May 29, 2014 5:22:14 GMT -5
I posted one in a different color & a plain one a while back in a thread about unusual stoves elswhere. To be honest it's just an ordinary twenty four inch wide stove that's had those attractive curved cabinets added to the sides. This would have been made in the very early 30s judging from the big clunky carbon rod heat regulator on the right side of the oven. They weren't used after about 1934 when more modern thermostats became available. At the time this stove was new, most people still had the older long legged stoves with the oven beside the cook-top. Console stoves like this & others were the latest new design. They were trying really hard to beautify the kitchen range to make it look more like a lovely piece of furniture & less like the old clunky looking stoves of the 20s. Isn't it amazing that by giving an ordinary object a more attractive shape, it makes it more appealing & salable. In a way this stove was ahead of it's time as far as cabinet design. Curved end cabinets beame popular later in the 50s. I once had a big dresser that was shaped like this only wider that I had gotten at an auction years ago, but I left it behind in one of my old apartments.
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Post by lwagne on May 29, 2014 12:20:11 GMT -5
So many stoves, so little room! Is that not the most charming thing imaginable!!
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Post by karitx on May 29, 2014 13:00:08 GMT -5
Those are so cute! And I think this would be another good contender for an alternate use, like a bar, with all that storage on the sides.
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Post by chipperhiker on May 30, 2014 21:50:16 GMT -5
It's a sickness, I tell you! All these old stoves are just so fabulous. I recently had to fight off a crush I was developing on a beautiful old green Kalamazoo wood cook stove.
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Post by ronruble on May 30, 2014 23:45:45 GMT -5
Before I knew about Chambers stoves, I almost got this one. I found this Moores Stove on the internet and called the next day... they just sold it a few hours before I called. Not getting this stove got me looking at all antique stoves and the rest is history.
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