$2,200
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Description
The blue enamel ware framed stove has cast iron stove top with six burners and lifter, steel back with nickel edging on brackets and shelf, two nickel-plated shelves that hinge from the back wall, chimney with workable flue, nickel-plated oven door embossed "Quick Meal" with hinged opening and interior racks, nickel-plated door for coal or wood, door for ashes with tinplate ash bin, movable grate. There is a wide drying bar at the front, and a small drying bar that forms the oven handle. Condition: near mint state of preservation. Comments: the Quick Meal Toy Stove was only available through dealers of people-sized Quick Meal Stoves, and the manufacturer recommended placing the small stove in the store window along with a little girl baking biscuits "and you will be surprised at the crowds it draws". American, circa 1910, Quick Meal Stove Co. (originally the Ringen Stove Co of St. Louis, which became a division of the American Stove Co. in 1894). In 1909 the stove sold for $5.50.