Posted 8 months ago
daveinNJ
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Found this in a house after a relative died. Any idea of it's age or manufacturer? Has round wooden handles and metal brackets. Thank you in advance.
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It's a copper boiler. I have one just like it but with the lid. There are no markings on mine either. When I was a kid, my parents used one of these to put the ashes from our coal furnace in and we'd haul them outside to the ash pile.
The copper boiler goes hand in hand with the Saturday night bath in the wash tub.
The bigger the family the colder & dirtier the water got.
LOL. I remember those Saturday nights. My parents were always worried about the well running dry. In all these years, it never has.
That's funny jonima, makes you think about all the overuse & waste now.
For years we hauled water & stored it in a cistern, our boys all bathed together in 2 " of water.
Copper is about 3.50 a pound
Maybe they were referring to the economy!
Thanks all for letting me know what this is.
would guess the age from mid 1800s to the 1920 -- before washing machines or there abouts -- used for almost everything -- from the saturday night bathes to horse tanks, dyeing cloth, making soap or rendering the lard out of the yearly pig kill -- usually they had a lid which i would guess at one time this one did also -- lovely piece
Hi Everyone, I have one of these and the marking on the side is ATLANTIC 15 GAL I tried to see a date but nothing. Thank you epson233 for the info but could this be the same for mine?. I also have another one but looks much newer, the marking one the side is, REVERE WARE. Both have wooden handles and the Atlantic handles are very worn looking.
Anyone have any idea how much they are worth?
Are you not suppose to clean these? My Atlantic one looked like it was in a fire, so I've been scrubbing with copper cleaner all morning. Looks great except the inside and bottom outside. I'm using them, tipped upside down, in front of my windows for African Violets in class pie plates for water(humidity) on them.