I got this with a bunch of household goods from an old man's estate. I can't find it on the Internet anywhere. I thought maybe a travel ashtray, but can't find anything like it. No clue. The third picture shows it's bottom.
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I got this with a bunch of household goods from an old man's estate. I can't find it on the Internet anywhere. I thought maybe a travel ashtray, but can't find anything like it. No clue. The third picture shows it's bottom.
People may laugh at me, but that's ok. I laugh all the way to the bank.
Experienced Scrapper
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It is a burner from an old Chaffing dish. Today's equvalent would be a can of sterno.
http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedi...copper-chafing
Last edited by 708bigbuck; 09-24-2010 at 06:41 AM. Reason: misspelling
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Sent you a "Thanks". It had been a real mystery for my wife and me.
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Is that worth something? It looks like an antique.
Experienced Scrapper
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If they have the chaffing dish that goes with it it is. It still might be worth something to someone who has the dish but not the burner. A good guage of something like that is ebay.
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I did a quick check and I doubt it since it's just a part of a set. But I'm going to research it more later. I'll bet the rest of the set got thrown in the copper pile or just thrown away cause I didn't know to what it was. Might just keep this as a conversation piece. From the same place, I got a 50-some year old Sunbeam toaster that's real fancy. It has a built-in spring devise that lets the bread glide down and back up - no "pop up" and no lever. It toasts by the temp of the bread rather than the by the temp of the machine like modern toasters. The site where I researched it said that the same toaster today would retail at over $100.
New Guy
old gas burner. thats why we love scrapping! Every once in a while you get something really neat!
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