Very Early 3 footed piece

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Jeffrey R.

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A break in the snow so we hit the road, 160 mile round trip. We have been to this antique store around 3 times, every time it has been closed. This time, lucky. The owner's son was there. He said that his mother has had some health issues, that is why it has been closed a lot. So a lot of rust and dust. Took me about 8 minutes to dig this out of a piled corner, along with 2 more kettles.

3 legged skillet 1840 - 1860 +/- Per the GB 3 photos to the right.

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I scrolled to far and looked at that scotch bowl again. Man that thing is pretty. It's sooooo shiny. Your photo album is way cool.
 
Bonnie Scott said:
I scrolled to far and looked at that scotch bowl again. Man that thing is pretty. It's sooooo shiny. Your photo album is way cool.
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The scotch bowl is cleaned, but not seasoned as of yet. The lighting did make it look toooooo shiny.

Thank you, the album is all eye candy. That is not 1/4 of all the cast iron that has passed through my hands.:icon_thumbsup:
 
I have passed a scotch bowl a number of times at one of the antique stores near me. It looks like it would clean up nice but there is a chunk missing out of one of the bail attachment. It still holds the bail but I don't want a broken one. I haven't seen one anywhere else around here. I figure with a name like Bonnie Scott I ought to have one. :D
 
Jeeeez Jeffrey, that has to be hard on the lye tank & the electro set up. Do you clean anything between September and May?
 
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JMoss said:
Jeeeez Jeffrey, that has to be hard on the lye tank & the electro set up. Do you clean anything between September and May?
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You learn to survive.

Lye tank is in my garage under. Electro set up and seasoning is done in my shop across the road. Electro gets dumped after I do a bunch of iron.

Sled full of seasoned cast iron.

A few nights ago it went down to 26 below. So my tractor ( forgot to plug it in), and 4 wheeler did not want to start up. At 9:00 AM it was only 10 below. My shop is across the road, that is where I season all my iron then bring it back to the house. I built the sled a year ago, it is made out of white, and brown ash wood. The ash trees were standing dead. I cut them down, pulled them into my saw mill and cut them into boards. Then let them air dry 2 years, last year I rebuilt the sled last year. This is a rebuilt 'Antique Vermont Train Trail Sled 1800s with all original Vermont handmade steel metal runners. I was told that the sleigh was used to pull brake shoes for the train out to the train so they could go from wheel to wheel and replace the old
brake shoes. It belonged to a family member that had worked for the Grand Trunk Rail Road in Island Pond, Vermont. We can build anything here, we will survive. :icon_thumbsup:

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