Decorative Items

Item 1420
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 Victorian era (c. 1870-1900)  C. Blake umbrella stand base has been converted into a baking dish.  Stripped, lead tested and cleaned, it now serves as a baking-lasagna dish. It’s also a great gift for anyone named Blake.  In any case it’s a lovely piece of iron, ready for use in the kitchen, or of course you could repurpose it back to an umbrella stand.  Interior features diamond on the facets and bottom and bars on the outer lips.  It was originally part of a two dish hall tree for umbrellas and coats.  Both dishes are available.

Marked: “C. Blake” on the interior of the dish, with a gate mark on the bottom.

10” diameter side to opposing side.

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

No cracks, chips.  Sits on it’s gate marks so there is a wobble but that should be irrelevant if you use it in an oven.   Cooking surface is slightly rough but comparable with baking pieces made for the purpose of the same age..  Should only improve with use.

$135 shipped each.  (buy both and get a $10 rebate)

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

Item 1082

This is a old tool for making cast iron cookware and other ironware.  This was meant to be used to pack the sand around the form to get a nice tight fit so that when the form was removed you’d be left with a sand mold into which to pour the molten iron.  I believe the wood is maple but I am certainly not an expert in wood identification.

Unrestored.  Sold as found.

$50 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)

Sometimes when we are out searching for iron we run across non-iron that we just can’t resist because we know someone will want something this cool.  This held 50 pounds (it is empty now) of of margarine for baking (about 5 gallons – can you imagine how many pans you could have seasoned with this?)

It’s roughly 15 inches tall and has a diameter of 12”

We wiped it down for photos, but it is completely unrestored as found.

Sold as found.

$40 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 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 1354

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.

Unrestored as found.

Ok, not cast iron, but a cool piece pulled out of a Pennsylvania barn over the winter.  It’s a wooden corn creamer (for removing the corn corn kernels from the cob, quick and easy by rupturing them and making a corn slush – or creamed corn which would then be cooked).  Blades are toothed and steel   Great display piece or could be easily cleaned up and put back into use.

Unmarked

12” x 2” 3/4 x 3/4”

As found.

$25 shipped, but get a $5 shipping rebate if you buy it with another full sized piece that includes shipping.

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