Meant to be...

[Miss Neecerie]

I got an email offering me a free ticket to the Long Beach Flea Market.

I went down...and I found something I have been looking for since last year!

I have this stove...which has appeared before...

and I found a complete set of the shakers that go in the black gaping holes!

I am so happy I could dance......

 

[Dinerman]

how cool is that.

They look great, and that stove is neat.
What's the round thing under the light?

 

[Miss Neecerie]

how cool is that.

They look great, and that stove is neat.
What's the round thing under the light?

Its the mirror....for checking your lipstick before you bring the meal out to hubby, of course!

 

[MrNewportCustom]

It's always a treat to find that one missing piece of the antique puzzle.

Congratulations, Miss Neecerie. Great find!


Lee
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Don't forget to check your lipstick before dinner.

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Nice art deco stove. (And remarkable find!) What brand is it? Can't read the label,...
Would be uncanny if the canister set was the one that originally came with that.

 

[Miss Neecerie]

Nice art deco stove. (And remarkable find!) What brand is it? Can't read the label,...
Would be uncanny if the canister set was the one that originally came with that.

Its an O'Keefe and Merritt, which is probably the most commonly found brand of vintage stove found around Los Angeles, due to them being made here.

So its a local antique. Won it on ebay...local pickup.

Still needs a bit more polishing of the metal and cleaning(derusting) of the storage drawers, but its used daily and works perfectly. Just have to stock up on long handled matches since the oven itself has no pilot, you have to light it to bake, but its a easy thing to do after the first 10 times you realise you won't blow yourself up. lol

 

[dhermann1]

How does it cook? I've heard that a lot of stoves of this era cook as well as or better than modern stoves. There's something about a big old stove like that that just makes you feel all warm inside. Have you put up pix of the rest of your kitchen?

 

[Miss Neecerie]

How does it cook? I've heard that a lot of stoves of this era cook as well as or better than modern stoves. There's something about a big old stove like that that just makes you feel all warm inside. Have you put up pix of the rest of your kitchen?

I grew up cooking on my mothers Wedgewood from the 1940's so compared to that this is a tiny stove.(I can even lift one end of it by myself! Don't even try that with a heavier 40's stove) But it matches my tiny house!

I find it a little less well insulated then the bigger 40's stoves that everyone thinks of when you say 'vintage stove' , but that by no means makes it any less good at its job.

Every time I am forced to go cook on someones newer stove, I burn things. Especially if the stove is electric.

When the gas man came to hook it up, he calibrated it and it was within the same parameters that a modern stove would be ...ie 350 was within the 4 degree allowance they give stoves.

I posted pictures of the curtains in the What I made, and the cabinets in another...its not -that- big a room.

 

[PrettySquareGal]

WOW!!

 

[Josephine]

That's so great! You must be tickled pink.

I find it a little less well insulated then the bigger 40's stoves that everyone thinks of when you say 'vintage stove' , but that by no means makes it any less good at its job.

I hear you about the insulation, my aunt had an oven a bit older than yours, right next to the fridge. She had to move it downstairs because the heat warped the fridge.

 

[LolitaHaze]

That is fantastic!! Whoohoo on the score!

 

[scotrace]

WOW!

 

[Miss Neecerie]

WOW!

and here i was hoping for a


Holy Smoke

 

[scotrace]

Given the light-the-oven-with-a-match thing, I didn't want to risk smoke talk.















No toes, no smoke.

 

[Miss Neecerie]

:eusa_clap :eusa_clap

 

[The Wolf]

That is a beauty! I love the stoves that have flour, salt and pepper shakers that are part of the design.

Sincerely,
The Wolf

 

[goldwyn girl]

Great find, congrats :eusa_clap

 

[Feraud]

Congrats on the find. It really is amazing that you found the inserts to the stove.
So what's cooking?

 

[John in Covina]

THat is a really neat detail for a stove, I am really glad you were able to get them, it is just so rewarding to be able to have "the Complete Set" of something. Cool!

 

[imoldfashioned]

Congratulations--that's a beauty! I desparately want a vintage stove someday--there seem to be a ton of them on the West Coast (CA especially).