Other interesting iron

Item 1264

Please note all pictures on our site are of the actual piece you will receive, not a stock photo of a similar piece.  Additionally all our pieces unless marked otherwise are fully restored and seasoned.  Just wash them and start cooking.

This is a fairly uncommon piece.  You see the big ones for feeding pigs all the time, but the smaller ones tend to be harder to come by.   This is a Mountville Manufacturing Co. Feeder meant to be used for chickens and smaller animals.  It’s been cleaned, lead tested and seasoned.  It will be a great display piece or a great user for someone looking to convert it to a bread pan.  sprue marked.  Has supports to stop it from falling to a side Has a small drainage hole in the bottom, but that can easily be sealed if so desired.  Condition is very good – has some pouring flaws and some minor signs of age.

Marked: “Mountville M’F’G Co. PA” inside the trough.

23” 1/2 x 6” 1/2 x 3” 1/2 high.

Cleaned via lye method, hand buffed and seasoned with 3 layers of non-GMO canola oil.

No cracks, chips.  Iron is not finished like cookware.

$200 shipped

As always we are happy to combine shipping, as well as take back pieces if you are not satisfied.  (Please see return policy)

Item 2382
Please note all pictures on our site are of the actual piece you will receive, not a stock photo of a similar piece. Additionally all our pieces unless marked otherwise are fully restored and seasoned.

SOLD AS FOUND.

Collector grade. Beautiful cast iron chest type tobacco grinder. No markings. Appears to be painted (though it possibly is japanning). Sprued on bottom, top, and center drum.

approximately 10” x 6” x 6” 3/4 tall – excluding handle. Handle is 11” long

Sold as found.

No cracks, chips. Looks great inside and out.

$90 shipped

As always we are happy to take back pieces if you are not 100% satisfied. (Please see return policy)

Item 2171

Way out of our usual baliwick, I have been using this trench art piece made from a cut down Imperial German WW I artillery shell casing to hold loose change on my desk for the past few years. Now I’m ready to part with it.

This is a shell made in 1915 at the Polte Magdeburg manufacturing center and after a lot of research I believe it was made for either the 10 cm K-99, or the 10 cm Kanone 04. Based on the shell’s manufacture date it probably was one of the earliest shells made for the Kanone 04. The 252 is the inspection marker on the shell, but I’m not sure about the 274 – and I suspect it was a batch number.

Marked: “274 Polte Magdeburg Oct 1915, sp252”

12 cm in diameter at the base and 11CM at the upper rim. Stands 3cm tall.

$60 shipped

As always we are happy to take back pieces if you are not 100% satisfied. (Please see return policy)

Item 1763

Sold as found.

Very decorative Victorian era cast iron oval picture frame with elaborate patterning.  Really beautiful.   Just add a piece of glass (we can have one cut for you at an additional charge – but I suggest you have it done locally) and a cardboard or wooden backing board.  Really spectacular.

Unmarked

12” 1/8 x 10” 5/8 outside dimensions.  Inner ring should hold a picture about 7” x 9”

Sold as found.  Lightly cleaned only.

No cracks, chips.  Not a cooking item.

$100 shipped

As always we are happy to combine shipping, as well as take back pieces if you are not satisfied.  (Please see return policy)

Item 1735

Sold as found.

Nice old wrought iron hearth trivet used for cooking before the advent of the home stove.  Made by a blacksmith this one features a fancy hanging hook, two fixed feet, a peened on third leg and peened axis for rotating the trivet disc.  Must have taken some talent to use as I would have been greatly concerned it would tilt over, but maybe that is just me as the peens are nowhere near as tight as they used to be a century or two ago.  A really nice primitive piece.

Unmarked

stands roughly 2” 1/2 – 3” tall.  disc diameter is about 8” 3/8, base/handle is 19” 1/4 from end to end, with just over a foot extending past the edge of the disc.

Sold as found.

$125 shipped.

As always we are happy to take back pieces if you are not 100% satisfied.  (Please see return policy)

Can you imagine making your morning toast using this old frontier/hearth toaster?  Slice your bread and put the slices into the rotating end piece, sit it down near your cookfire and wait until one side was done before turning the end piece 180 degrees to toast the other side.  Pretty darn cool.  This one predates the invention of the household stove in the 1830s.  A blacksmith made piece, this probably belonged to a fairly well off family who had the wherewithal and room to own a gadget like this back at a time when most folks were toasting their bread in a skillet.

Sold unrestored in perfect working shape.   This one would be great for historical reenactment, or used as a display piece.

$225 shipping included in price.