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"Puritan" Gas Stove
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"Puritan" Gas Stove

ca 1894 · steel (overall material)

From the collection of National Museum of American History. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

Single-burner gas stove and heater featuring a removable, openwork, domed crown with scroll finial; a brass scalloped-edge cap; a vertical, cylindrical shell or casing pierced with two rows of dots and pointed drops near top and one row at base; and a three-foot base decorated with Eastlake- or Art Nouveau-style anthemion and fan motifs incorporating "PURITAN" at front center. Two-pane mica door on front is framed by a plaque with "No 2 / CLEVELAND FDY CO" and "CLEVELAND O." cast in raised letters above and below. Rectangular riveted-on plaque at center below cap reads "PATENTED / JULY 31.94". The threaded connector for the supply valve extends out above the back foot.

National Museum of American History’s own description
Subjects
stove, gas
Credit line"Puritan" Gas Stove. ca 1894. National Museum of American History, Gift of Waggaman-Brawner Realty Corporation (through William W. Brawner). CC0.

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