What is this? A hot plate? An Iron? I just don't know.

It's cast iron with a wood base. It comes out of the base but looks like it was glued in at one time. I have no idea what it is I want to think some kind of warmer but I just don't know. It's about 10" wide. Maybe 2 inches deep.

 

The iron piece is a stove lid. The wood has nothing to do with it.

 

Thanks!

Well that makes sense. LOL! I would have never figured it out. I wonder what the wood piece went to. This is how it came so I assumed they went together. It fits perfectly. LOL! I guess the previous owner thought it did anyways. LOL!

 

Somebody went to a lot of trouble for a stove lid. Maybe they just wanted a heavy duty trivet. Maybe the lid came from the family homestead way back when.

 

The things I find stuck together SMH and it's usally just all thrown in boxes.

 

So the thingie is where you put a handle-stick-thingie to lift it... ?

 

LOL! You crack me up.

 

Welcome to my world!!!!!!

 

Fyi... I have a ton of bird stuff right now. We took in an estate and I think this lady may have loved birds as much as you. ;-)

I will let you know when I get it posted.

 

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I'll be watching!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EDIT
I just registered... I'm "GilaMonster".

 

It is indeed a cast-iron hotplate.

The indentation in it is where you jemmied in the iron crowbar to lever the plate off of your old-fashioned wood or coal-fired cookstove. Then you could dump more fuel inside and then you slowly lowered the hotplate back down and twisted the bar off of it and put it away out of sight.

 

My grandmother (born in the early 1880s) was still cooking/baking on/in her wood stove into the early 1960s. Whoa doggies, could she ever cook the best meals in the world on it!!!! My grandpa up to age 86 was still chopping the wood for "her" stove. Hard to believe that they had always lived "in the city."

I can still "see" her taking a small piece of rolled up newspaper or a straw from a broom to "check" the heat of the oven or sprinkling a bit of water on one of the top fire-covers to gauge the heat that was being put out by that old wood stove.

If you wanted a "treat" to eat between mealtimes you could always find something good to eat in the "warming oven" compartment of that old stove.

 

Hi.
My Gram got rid of her coal stove in the early 60s. She got a gas stove, since gas was piped there in the 50s. The only heat we had in the house was the coal stove in the kitchen. I remember putting my shoes on the door of the oven to "soften" them.
I remember getting up in the morning and dressing like a maniac except for the shoes which had to be softened by the stove. Grabbing a hunk of fresh warm bread and a cup of coffee and dancing out the door at 5:30AM to start the chores before breakfast at 7AM and running off to school. Temp outside was 10 below 0 the barn was 35 degrees the house was 40 and climbed to 48 by the time I left to go to school. They wondered why I fled to California as soon as I could. I was NOT going to be cold anymore. Just like Scarlet saying she would not be hungry anymore.
greg