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.
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
Sent you a "Thanks". It had been a real mystery for my wife and me.
Is that worth something? It looks like an antique.
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.
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.
old gas burner. thats why we love scrapping! Every once in a while you get something really neat!