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Description
The steel 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. 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. 25"H. 17"W. 15"D.