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<p>[QUOTE="GaleriaGila, post: 87126, member: 993"]For what it's worth...</p><p>I have seen one like it. A great-aunt had a pot-belly stove in her New Mexico house, and on top of it sat a little pitcher full of water. In winter, when the stove was in use, the pitcher provided humidity and was also a ready source of hot water for coffee. Not sure how it came to be used that way, but I have seen other current-day cast-iron items, more decorative, dragons especially, sold for express use as humidifiers. Fire-wood heated winters in NM can be a very staticky (sp?) situation..[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GaleriaGila, post: 87126, member: 993"]For what it's worth... I have seen one like it. A great-aunt had a pot-belly stove in her New Mexico house, and on top of it sat a little pitcher full of water. In winter, when the stove was in use, the pitcher provided humidity and was also a ready source of hot water for coffee. Not sure how it came to be used that way, but I have seen other current-day cast-iron items, more decorative, dragons especially, sold for express use as humidifiers. Fire-wood heated winters in NM can be a very staticky (sp?) situation..[/QUOTE]
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