I know I'm a few days late, but thought I'd share this unusual treasure that I found yesterday. It's 3 feet square and is metal with a wood slat back. It's a metal floor pad for a wood or coal burning stove, made back when those stoves were commonplace.
Look at the beautiful design on it!
How different things were a hundred (or even 50) years ago -- that they took such care to create something beautiful for a stove to sit on and cover up!I think it's one of the most unusual and interesting things I've found. I can see it hung on a big wall or over a stairway as industrial art -- maybe in a house with a cathedral ceiling (probably not my 1960s ranch).
What about you? Would you have bought it or would you have passed it by? What would you do with it?
3 comments:
I too love things that recall older days. I think it is beautifully detailed. Great score!!
This is beautiful! I would've probably bought it as well.
It will look great on a wall!
Wow--I hunted for something like that for years--to go under our wood stove, of course. In the old house, we used a modern, flimsy, ugly, hard-to-clean floor protector. I didn't want to bring it to the new house, so I built one out of fire-proof concrete sheeting and ceramic tiles.
Post a Comment
This is my favorite part! Please leave me a comment -- I always love to hear from you: