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Antique Thermos from early 1900's | Kitchen1045 of 2217 |  |  |
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Lakefive
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This thermos is very old.....been in my family for ages.......I guess that my great grand Father used it for work.......The inside is in perfect condition.....there are markings on the bottom of it that read ...UNIVERSAL and a bunch of dates from 1914 to 1917...not sure what that all means.....was not sure either what category to put this in either.....any ideas of it's worth...or what all the dates on the bottom mean???? Thanks.........
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Lunch Boxes and ThermosesThe lunch box as we think of it today was born in 1935. That’s when a Milwa…
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"Landers, Frary & Clark was a housewares company based in New Britain, Connecticut. It operated from 1865 until its assets were sold to the General Electric company in 1965.
They manufactured a wide variety of products over the years, including stainless steel bull-nose rings and electric ranges, kitchen scales and vacuum bottles, window hardware and ice skates, mouse traps and percolators, can openers, cutlery, straight razors, aluminum cookware, and thousands of other products.
Many of these items were marketed under the brand Universal.
Some of the non-electric kitchenware assets were acquired from G.E. in 1984 by Universal Housewares, Inc./Universal Trading, Inc., who still market "Universal" meat grinders and coffee mills."
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