Antique Wood Cook Stove for Sale —Sold—

My long-hoarded stove was finally sold on Nov. 6, 2005. I'm told that it will be used for both cooking and heating in a restored log cabin in southern Indiana. I'm glad that it's finally going to be warming someone's kitchen and baking their bread again, instead of just gathering dust in my garage.

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I have a wood cook stove that I would like to sell, if I don't have to work at it very hard. Crating and shipping would be working too hard, so unless you can come and pick it up, I'm probably not interested. My asking price is $1,400, but I'm open to negotiation. Call or email me to discuss it.

I bought it around 1980 (give or take a couple of years), when I was still in college, and was planning to build a cabin in the woods and become a hippie artist. It had been in storage in my parent's garage until the summer of 2002, when I moved it to my garage in West Lafayette.

I never actually used it, and at this point in my life, the only way that I would be likely to use it is if we were to get a hunting/vacation cabin in the country, a scenario which is not likely to happen any time soon.

Soooo... with great reluctance, I have decided that I should sell the stove.

Details:

The cook top has 6 burners and is @38" wide x 24" deep, 30.5" high. The top of warming oven is 56" high. Hot water reservoir is 24" deep x 13" wide x 12.5" tall.

I would say its condition is good, or maybe on the good side of fair. The porcelain is in excellent condition, but the plating has a moderate amount of peeling and rusty spots. The top is somewhat pitted, but is solid. It has two crank handles and a single handle for lifting the burner plates. The only significant item that I know is missing is the catch for the oven door. It was missing when I got it, and had been replaced by a bit of bent wire.

The last time I peeked inside it I don't recall seeing any significant flaws. I don't know if the reservoir is water-tight, but I believe that it probably is.

I've also talked to the friends that I bought it from, and they agreed with my memory that it was in use, and working fine, right up to the day I bought it. They recall that there was a working control that let you switch the heat path so that it went straight out the stack instead of heating the stove top (or oven, perhaps?). They also said that the person they bought it from had had it in their house, so as far as I can tell, it's never been left out in the weather.

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