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Richard G.

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A friend brought this to me to repair 2 legs. I have to admit, I did not know what this heater was for until he told me. Made in Rome,GA.
Who can tell what it is?
Yes, the bear had to get in the pic.
Richard in NW SC
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Looks like a little parlour stove. Burned coal I would imagine. My parents had one very similar that they used for a phone stand in the kitchen.
 
We always called them Laundry Stoves.. Main use was heating water for washing, bathing, etc... We take hot running water for granted these days..
 
All good replies. The little rack on the base was for holding old irons against the 8 flat sides for ironing clothes.
Richard
 
I was going to say train station or caboose, but I would think in a caboose it would have to be secured to the floor, and I don't see any holes in the feet. I have seen a few around like that, could burn small chunk coal same as the locomotive.
 
I agree with Davis SC. It's a laundry stove. We made ones like that in the stove foundry where I use to work.
 
That is a neat little heater. But that dog is even cooler. Looks like he don't like to move around much. Quite the rug. Very cool friend.
 
Cool stove, and its obvious the dog is wondering why everyone is so excited about the stove. He's wondering about the cat which just passed (footprints) and if someone can go chase it! :)
 
I got a similar one at an auction. The center cast iron piece between the two round plates is broken on mine. Since I got it I noticed sometimes on "Gunsmoke" reruns Doc Adams had one like it in his office, sometimes used if for coffee.
 
Believe it or not, if you are interested, there are websites out there for stove collecting and they often have pics from the old catalogs IDing these types of stoves.

Honestly, doesn't matter what it is, someone has an organization dedicated to collecting whatever it is!
 
Bought,[and sold] one much like that one, that had a pipe coil inside to heat water.
Hope they used coal, I'd hate to cut/split wood that small. Ed
 
ERNOT and Brian, the dog is one of the best and he will chase all cats but one that is his buddy.
Richard
 
The 'bear' is a Brittany Spaniel. We think there is a little Poodle in his ancestry, but we don't talk about it around him.
Richard
 
Just a standard laundry stove. You set a copper wash boiler on the cook top to heat the water for the wash and bucked the water both in and out. Also if extra cooking space was needed could be used for that. And burned mostly wood as that was what the farm had. To cook on it with a cast iron skillet you took the lid off the burner and set the skillet directly above the fire.
 
I have one similar to those pictured here. It belonged to my fathers folks. They always called it a two eyed laundry heater. I recall my father saying his mother would make him split firewood for it and that the wood had to be cut very small and totally dry, like the wood for their cookstove. I think that his daily chores as a youngster would make my Dad laugh at folks that would remark about the good old days.
 
I found a heater similar to that in the attic of a house I purchased. However on the back, it had a place to connect 2 water pipes to make hot water. A storage tank was like kept in the attic. Convection transfred the heat to the storage tank. I gave it to my old brother. Don't know what he did with it.
 
(quoted from post at 06:27:44 03/12/14) Just a standard laundry stove. You set a copper wash boiler on the cook top to heat the water for the wash and bucked the water both in and out. Also if extra cooking space was needed could be used for that. And burned mostly wood as that was what the farm had. To cook on it with a cast iron skillet you took the lid off the burner and set the skillet directly above the fire.
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Bingo !!! Leroy gets the prize in my opinion. The double burner top fits perfectly the bottom of the old copper "wash boilers". I've got a couple in my living room for end tables, one fitted with a wood top and another repainted gloss black with gold trim and serves as out printer stand. It also has the pipe fittings coming out the back and has a water jacket surrounding the firebox.

The two more on the front porch holding a Baltic cream separator and the other sitting there just looking old....with a copper wash boiler on top.
 
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