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Post by nana on May 14, 2016 13:03:45 GMT -5
I did not know, but should have guessed, that Lisk made other kinds of cookware besides roasters! Just got back from garage sales, and I saw a white enameled 5 qt or so lidded pot with black trim, and a matching must have been at least a gallon and a half tea kettle, both seemingly never or hardly used; they both still had the paper label saying Lisk cookware on the front. The kettle had a bale handle and a handle towards the bottom to hold and balance it as you poured the water out. I was tempted, but he wanted $20 for the pot and $30 for the kettle, and although those are probably very fair prices for them, it was waaaaay too much for me. For $50 bucks I need to come home either with a car load, or with my absolute heart's desire, not just interesting things for which I have no room or use! Sigh.
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Post by vaporvac on May 14, 2016 22:55:25 GMT -5
For $50, I'd have to come back with another stove! Still, those are probably some unique items that I'll now have to Google. Maybe he'll come down some if they don't sell.
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Post by pooka on May 15, 2016 1:15:17 GMT -5
Lisk made all kinds of stuff over the years. I believe they started out making tinware & copper ware. The porcelain ware came later. Their earliest was grey. In an article about the history of the Lisk Manufacturing Company it says; "In 1905, the Imperial Gray enamel roaster was introduced and quickly became one of the trademark products of Lisk Manufacturing." Bellow is a link to it & another to a 1905 catalog posted at the Internet Archive. HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY: Lisk — a big company with a big impact in CanandaiguaThe Lisk Manufacturing Company - Fourteenth Illustrated Catalog 1905I've got a book somewhere that I ran across online. It's a history of sorts of the Republic Metalware Company that was a parent company somehow. It's mostly old ads & catalog pages. It was half price at $5, so I picked it up. I think I posted about here at the time.
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Post by nana on May 15, 2016 6:56:04 GMT -5
I was hoping you'd chime in Pooka! That link to the catalog won't work for me. I can't move past the first page. But the article was neat. If you scroll through the pictures at the top there's an amazing shot of hundreds of roasters stacked to the ceiling. What a treasure trove!
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Post by nana on May 15, 2016 7:16:17 GMT -5
Two can play this Google game! I should have taken my own picture, but this looks just like it. Perhaps not the exact same label. I couldn't find a picture of the exact pot, though.
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Post by mach12 on May 15, 2016 9:53:58 GMT -5
I have that same pot! I got it in the mid-1970's when I worked for the Milwaukee RR dismantling the electrical system for the old electric locomotives that used to pull over the Cascade Mountains. The pot was in a substation we were emptying of all the transformers and other gear so that they could knock down the building so I tossed it in the truck and took it home. I'm not sure it had ever been used and in the 40+ years I've had it we've only used it to heat water on a camp stove for doing dishes and stuff like that. I didn't know the first thing about Lisk until I got interested in Chambers Ranges, so it was just the "white hot water pot". Now it has been elevated to the "Lisk hot water pot". About a year ago I found an ad from a magazine in an antique store that shows it and a white enamel wash basin. I'll see if I can dig it out, take a picture, and then post it. It's in the spare bedroom where I have all of my cookbooks and appliance manuals stored while we're doing the kitchen and the floors so getting to it might be a challenge though.
Yesterday we decided to take a break from working on the house so went to a thrift store to see whether we could bring home more stuff to have to deal with and down under a workbench were two roasters. The one on top was one of the modern ones so I lifted it off and there sat a #3 Lisk. I took it out and looked inside and there sat the tray. The roaster was clean and the enamel was all shiny and new looking except for a small chip on the edge of the lid where it sits into the base. The girl at the counter wasn't sure on the price so she yelled at a guy who was standing outside with a bunch of other guys telling lies. He came in. looks at the roaster, says "five bucks" and heads back outside. Well that was a no-brainer. Probably doubled my net worth. When I got home with it and compared it to the one I already had I noticed that the vent plate was different on them. The one I had just bought had a flat plate with 1911 Patent info stamped into it but the plate on the one I already had doesn't have any lettering and the plate has a kind of an elongated bubble stamped into it so I'd guess that's the newer of the two.
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Post by nana on May 15, 2016 14:19:15 GMT -5
I have that same pot! I didn't know the first thing about Lisk until I got interested in Chambers Ranges, so it was just the "white hot water pot". Now it has been elevated to the "Lisk hot water pot". Yesterday we decided to take a break from working on the house so went to a thrift store to see whether we could bring home more stuff to have to deal with Wonderful! Kind of like finding out the nice guy you married is also an heir to the throne! And funny, that is the same reason we went to the Granville townwide sale yesterday...because we don't have enough junk yet. My big treasures were a snake plant for $.50 and for a dollar a pyrex mixing bowl almost but not exactly Marilyn's shade of blue. And this has nothing to do with any of this, but we are absolutely overflowing with rose breasted grosbeaks this year! My husband counted at least a dozen, males and females, at the feeder this morning. They usually have such a calm and deliberate demeanor, but they are so numerous they're all getting testy with each other. Holy Smokes!
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Post by chipperhiker on May 17, 2016 14:37:08 GMT -5
I have a yellow Lisk stockpot, maybe 6 quarts, still with a partial label.
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Post by nana on May 17, 2016 17:34:55 GMT -5
Is it yellow yellow, or that pale buttery yellow? I've seen that creamy color on pots before. I wonder if they were Lisks as well?
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Post by chipperhiker on May 19, 2016 19:33:22 GMT -5
buttery yellow
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Post by nana on May 20, 2016 5:25:48 GMT -5
Good to know!
You know, it just occurred to me that since they were located in Canandaigua, NY and I'm in upstate NY as well, I've probably seen a ton of them but never realized it. Once the label is rubbed off there's no other imprint or writing on them. All the old farms around here must have been lousy with Lisk stuff--after all, they were the local talent! I will be on the lookout from now on. I haven't given up on an enameled pot for the thermowell!
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Post by mach12 on May 20, 2016 12:24:27 GMT -5
Good to know! You know, it just occurred to me that since they were located in Canandaigua, NY and I'm in upstate NY as well, I've probably seen a ton of them but never realized it. Once the label is rubbed off there's no other imprint or writing on them. All the old farms around here must have been lousy with Lisk stuff--after all, they were the local talent! I will be on the lookout from now on. I haven't given up on an enameled pot for the thermowell! Might be some literature or ad stuff around too! That'd be great to find.
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Post by chipperhiker on May 23, 2016 12:53:04 GMT -5
It's true, nana. We should be on the lookout more. I got my butter yellow pot on eBay, though. Shrug.
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