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Rosemary
True Blue Farmgirl
1825 Posts
Virginia
USA
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 Posted - Jan 15 2007 : 09:53:43 AM
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Want to cook bread the old-fashioned way? In a wood stove like your great-grandma used?
I have to find a new home for the cook stove that was original to our 1911 farmhouse. It's a Glascock Co. "Victor Junior" model, white porcelain on black cast iron, with a two-door warming shelf above. As far as I know, it's got everything it came with back in the 1920s, including an accurate thermometer on the oven door.
The oven/stovetop really WORKS! We can't actually cook with it only because our chimneys are no longer safe to use. I've been using it for several years basically as a giant trivet, right next to my gas range. I would really like to keep it just for the nostalgia value, but I need to get serious about redoing my kitchen, and it's getting in the way of my plans.
This is from an old product catalog. The big main picture is like mine, only our just has four, not six, "burners." All you'd need is the right size flue pipe for your setup. Hardware stores usuallysell them pretty cheap.
It's way too much trouble to ship, so you'd have to pick it up (I have a pickup truck and can help, if you don't have the right kind of vehicle for such chores), so that means getting to Fauquier County, Virginia. Expect to stay for tea and homemades!
Tell me what you have to swap, or we could talk cash, if that makes more sense to you.
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2007 : 10:29:09 AM
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If only I lived closer...that IS my dream stove!! Someday............
good luck..some lucky farmgirl will have a dream stove for sure!
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
http://www.auntjennysworld.blogspot.com/ visit my little online shop at www.auntjenny.etsy.com |
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Rosemary
True Blue Farmgirl
1825 Posts
Virginia
USA
1825 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2007 : 10:38:45 AM
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Thanks, Jenny. Yes, that would be quite a drive!
I love this stove so much I've even thought of finding a way to use it outdoors, with a fluepipe just going straight up for a few feet to lift the smoke out of head range. Maybe it could be set on a rolling platform of some sort so it could be wheeled out for use, then put away to keep it from the elements (cast iron rusts in the rain, presumably). You'd need flat paved surfaces for this, though, which lets us out.
Just the idea of baking bread in a wood stove sets my mouth to watering. And let's not even think about apple pies, baked beans, and on and on. Or making coffee on the top in one of those cool old-time enamel pots. I mean, how Farmgirl can you get!
Wow. I think somebody'd better take me up on this before I lose my nerve!  |
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babs
True Blue Farmgirl
226 Posts
Babette
MN
USA
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Posted - Jan 15 2007 : 10:53:11 AM
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That is a lovely stove... wow. I'd love to find something like that here. I would totally redo my gardening shack. It would make a lovely garden tea hut, and I could boil maple syrup on it in the spring. Are you sure you don't want to keep it?
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willowtreecreek
True Blue Farmgirl
4813 Posts
Julie
Russell
AR
USA
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Posted - Jan 15 2007 : 11:01:08 AM
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How far are you from Nelson County? How much moo-lah would you be looking for? Send me an email and I'll contact you tonight. I love it!!!!
Jewelry, art, baskets, etc.
www.willowtreecreek.com |
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Rosemary
True Blue Farmgirl
1825 Posts
Virginia
USA
1825 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2007 : 11:15:44 AM
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Rosemary
True Blue Farmgirl
1825 Posts
Virginia
USA
1825 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2007 : 11:21:46 AM
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Originally posted by babs
Are you sure you don't want to keep it?
I wish I could. If only I could find a realistic way. *sigh* |
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junebug
True Blue Farmgirl
2421 Posts
Sue
West Plains,
Mo.
USA
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2007 : 2:14:32 PM
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what an awesome stove! gee! I think the using it as a garden porch decor would be so neat too...if noone could use it as a cookstove.. Gee..it's a really neat one.
Hope you find someone that will really appreciate it.
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
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momjolly
Farmgirl in Training
12 Posts
Campbell
Cincinnati
Ohio
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Posted - Feb 14 2007 : 1:27:36 PM
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| Did you sell or trade your stove away yet? What are the dimensions of the stove? |
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Aunt George
True Blue Farmgirl
1476 Posts
Georgann
Midlothian
VA
1476 Posts |
Posted - Feb 20 2007 : 09:48:31 AM
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Oooo...I love this stove. Did you ever find a home for it? I don't have room either, but I have always wanted one of these!!
http://auntgeorgeshouse.blogspot.com/index.html
Thanks for checking out my apron and sewing musings! |
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serenity1652
True Blue Farmgirl
140 Posts
Fawn
Elkins
WV
USA
140 Posts |
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Kim
True Blue Farmgirl
146 Posts
Kim
Pflugerville
Texas
USA
146 Posts |
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Rosemary
True Blue Farmgirl
1825 Posts
Virginia
USA
1825 Posts |
Posted - Feb 28 2007 : 10:23:07 AM
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I've been offline (in the recreational sense, anyway) for a while but wanted to let ya'll know that my wood-burning cookstove is still looking for a new home. Can't be free, I'm afraid -- asking $400 or best reasonable offer, including swapables -- and I think it would be sensible for you to be able to drive home with it, since it's much too heavy and problematic to ship. I have a pickup if you don't, and if it's not too huge a distance to your place, I could provide the wheels. I'm in Fauquier County, Virginia. By the way, here's a photo I took a little while ago, to add to the owner's manual drawing I posted when starting this thread.
Something I've noticed is that there appears to be one piece missing: a sort of extra ledge that would hook on to the right of the "burners" -- I've looked for it in our outbuildings and the old barn, but it's truly gone, or maybe it was an optional thing that the original owners decided they didn't need, so it was never there. I imagine it would be easier for most folks to accommodate this stove without that attachment, since it would add to the overall width of the stove without making all that much more practical.
In answer to your question about size, momjolly, it's about 30" wide, 5 feet tall. If you need more specific info, I can whip out the yardstick at home later.
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Edited by - Rosemary on Feb 28 2007 10:52:24 AM |
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Rosemary
True Blue Farmgirl
1825 Posts
Virginia
USA
1825 Posts |
Posted - Feb 28 2007 : 10:50:18 AM
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Originally posted by serenity1652
Did you get rid of the stove yet...if not let me know.
Tried unsuccessfully to e-mail you earlier today. My addy is rosemarynov1@yahoo.com -- give me a holler
Rosemary |
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Aunt George
True Blue Farmgirl
1476 Posts
Georgann
Midlothian
VA
1476 Posts |
Posted - Feb 28 2007 : 10:52:21 AM
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Rosemary she is a grand ole dame! My grandmothter (a farmgirl in Iowa) cooked on one of those. Mmm....the best raised yeast rolls on sunday!!
http://auntgeorgeshouse.blogspot.com/index.html
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gregs_lil_farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
219 Posts
birdi
hartford
me
USA
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Posted - Feb 28 2007 : 11:40:00 AM
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Fauquier County....Is that near fredericksburg? I am an old VA girl myself..grew up between alexandria and fredericksburg....the wheeels are turning for sure. This is something to complete my kitchen...gosh it is beautiful. Road trip to Va? Thought about it when I first saw it post and thought it found a home.
-Simple pleasures make my heart smile- |
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Amie C.
True Blue Farmgirl
2099 Posts
Finger Lakes Region
NY
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Posted - Feb 28 2007 : 1:14:39 PM
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I would love to have that stove for my in-laws cabin in the country. Right now they have a propane cookstove and a small woodstove for heat. Wouldn't it be efficient to combine the two functions into one really awesome stove?
Picking it up would be a huge project, though. What with the weather and the heating bills, it would be May or June before I could arrange to come and pick it up. So I'll just be happy for whoever snaps this beauty up. Sigh....
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Rosemary
True Blue Farmgirl
1825 Posts
Virginia
USA
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Posted - Mar 01 2007 : 09:36:31 AM
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Originally posted by gregs_lil_farmgirl
Fauquier County....Is that near fredericksburg? I am an old VA girl myself..grew up between alexandria and fredericksburg....the wheeels are turning for sure. This is something to complete my kitchen...gosh it is beautiful. Road trip to Va? Thought about it when I first saw it post and thought it found a home.
-Simple pleasures make my heart smile-
I'm about half an hour from Fredericksburg. It's just the next county down, and a very pretty drive. |
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Rosemary
True Blue Farmgirl
1825 Posts
Virginia
USA
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Posted - Mar 01 2007 : 09:40:41 AM
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Originally posted by Amie C.
I would love to have that stove for my in-laws cabin in the country. Right now they have a propane cookstove and a small woodstove for heat. Wouldn't it be efficient to combine the two functions into one really awesome stove?
Picking it up would be a huge project, though. What with the weather and the heating bills, it would be May or June before I could arrange to come and pick it up. So I'll just be happy for whoever snaps this beauty up. Sigh....
Well, you never know! We can keep in touch here. It relaly is such a cool stove. When we first moved into our old farmhouse, It was still hooked up to the chimney behind it via a big black flue pipe. The previous owners claimed to have used it, but I wonder. The chimneys really aren't safe, and wouldn't have been in their time, either, but I've dreamed of how terrific it would be to bake bread and apple pies in that oven. I'd even consider creating an outdoor "old home" space to accommodate it, so it could be safely used for cooking without being exposed to rusting. I guess that's not possible, though, so.... |
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