Decorative Items

Sure don’t see many of these still around  which makes this one pretty cool.  Definitely an old farm piece.  Designed for creaming corn it has serrated teeth to rip open the corn kernels as your ran the ear of corn over it then a steel block (non sharpened) blade to milk out whatever was left inside when it bumped the opposite side.  The resulting slurry would end up in a catch tray below.  Aging this I’d say it was at least 100 years old.

Measures roughly  10” 1/2 by 3” 1/4 long and 2” 5/8 high.

Sold as found

$33 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 1898

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.

Cleaned and painted with high heat spray enamel

Fireback made in the 1985 by the Country Iron Forge who based the pattern on a French piece from the 1800s.  Cleaned and painted with high heat spray enamel.  New these go for over $400 PLUS shipping.

Marked:  Country Iron Forge

19” x 19”.  Weighs about 40lbs

Cleaned and painted with high heat enamel.

$200 shipped to the lower 48.  Shipping elsewhere will be additional.

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 1542
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.

13” 3/4 x 10” 7/8 x 8” 1/2 on the rectangle.  Stove eye drop is 7” 1/2 diameter x 2” deep.

Unrestored – sold as found.

Museum level display piece.  Well over 150 years old.   This is a really unusual piece, neither Henry nor I have ever seen one of these before.  It’s a rectangular pot with an eccentric bottom on one end, meaning that it has a round lower piece that was designed to be dropped into a stove eye.  Has the original tinned steel lid, and is bottom gated.  Based on the stove eye drop and the hand wrought bail this piece has to have been made between 1820-1860.  New England style ears with unique reinforcing style.  Sadly it has a crack on the bottom, so using it would require a repair first  (and it might be worth doing), but as a display piece it’s just amazing – and so unique that you probably will not see another one.  Hand wrought bail with wooden handle.  See pictures.

Sold as found.

$200 OBO shipped

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

Item 1526
Please note all pictures on our site are of the actual piece you will receive, not a stock photo of a similar piece.

Unrestored.  Sold as found.  All original.

Aside from the crank and fittings this one is not iron, but we couldn’t resist when we saw it at a barn sale.  It’s cool, it’s in amazing shape and you could probably make butter right away after just a light cleaning.  Made with square headed handmade nails, hand shaped wood, tin, steel, iron and glass this is a real piece of history that could go right into a museum display.  Butter tank is a sheet tin tub that must have been difficult to get just right when made, butter churn blade is wood.  Has a glass sight so you can look in and see the consistency and milk level and a drain hole for removing the buttermilk afterwards.

Condition is great – everything works.  Has some nice age to it.

No markings

Roughly 13” long, 13” high x 11” wide

Unrestored – sold as found.

$110  shipped

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