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Thread Number: 61029
/ Tag: Classified Ad Finds
Do you know Florence? FLorence Retro Vintage Stove - $225 (Jackson,MI) |
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Post# 836517 8/13/2015 at 21:26 (3,168 days old) by ovrphil  (N.Atlanta / Georgia ) |
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some kind of errant model that came and went quickly? Cute stove, but not self-cleaning.
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| Post# 836524 , Reply# 1 8/13/2015 at 21:44 (3,168 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c ) | ||
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Florence Stove Co Gardner Mass, these were made for many years and were popular in the South, a very well built range. | ||
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Post# 836530 , Reply# 2 8/13/2015 at 22:11 (3,168 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia ) |
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Post# 836696 , Reply# 3 8/14/2015 at 21:37 (3,167 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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Florence called their thermostatic burner control "Governess" and she was shown in ads in a tight white uniform--very much a man's fantasy. | ||
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Post# 836811 , Reply# 4 8/15/2015 at 15:38 (3,166 days old) by moparwash (Pittsburgh,PA ) |
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Looks like a Roper/Kenmore
The clock and the vents sure do. Reminds me of the Kenmore stove from growing up
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Post# 836832 , Reply# 5 8/15/2015 at 20:58 (3,166 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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Most of the Florence stoves here as a kid were the huge combo kerosene heater on the left and gas on the right and the oven in the center. They were the first gas ones I had ever seen that had the broiler burner in the top of the oven cavity and not in a drawer below the oven. There are still some of those old Florences still going strong here after 50 years and more.
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Post# 836916 , Reply# 7 8/16/2015 at 11:32 (3,165 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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Yes, you had to vent the kitchen heaters into a chimney Tom because they ran 24/7 during the cold months. But the smell definitely was still there in the house when they were on. Just about all of the houses in this area used to have at least a chimney in the front and one in the back for the kitchen heater. Once people got central heating, those old arks were replaced with smaller electric or gas stoves. Many also had a coil that ran around the burner that heated water for the house into a tall storage tank next to the stove.
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