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    Posted 3 years ago

    Treemusic
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    Picked this little guy up today for free. Can’t find anything on the age. It’s rusty around the holes. Wondering if we could fire it up for fun?

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    1. AnythingObscure AnythingObscure, 3 years ago
      I can't think of any reason you couldn't fire it up, presuming the burner itself is still in there and not busticated -- but it also would have had a row of "radiants" sitting immediately above it in there, those are ceramic-ish roughly triangular things with open bottoms and patterned 'grille' fronts that'd sit right over the flame and end up getting red hot, thus "radiating" further heat from the front of the heater. Those radiants are extremely fragile by nature, and it isn't unusual that they'd now be gone, either by breakage or having been salvaged for use in other heaters -- vintage radiants came in many variations of size and pattern and can now be rather sought after items by themselves.
      Its age is probably early 1900's, when such appliances were the common option for household heat and when the average dwelling was *not* air-tight enough for such an otherwise hazardous (by today's standard) open-flame 'carbon monoxide generator' to exist in a 'confined space', fancier styled decorative ones like this often ended up sitting in front of false fireplace hearths.

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