Antique French Enamelled Wood Burning Stove Woodburner Art Nouveau

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This auction is for A beautiful French Art Nouveau Enamelled Wood Burning Stove More or less in working condition, but in need of some TLC… This is sold as “spares or repair” but in all seriousness itwill make someone a very attractive, and functional stove with a just little bit of work.This stove came back from France last year, where it was found sitting at the back of the barn in a house we bought. I was going to do it up and use it myself, but I’ve been tripping over it for 18 months now and I’ve still done nothing to it, so it’s time for it to go!The stove is really in working order, but needs a clean up, and 2 minor repairs (see below). It also has 2 parts missing (see below), one of which does really needs replacing before the stove is used, the other is not essential. With a bit of TLC it will be a nice working stove, and decorative collector’s piece. In fact you just wanted it for a decorative antique and weren’t intending to use it, then it really just needs a clean up…The cast iron is in generally good condition, as is most of the enamel, although it’s faded and knocked about a bit as you would expect from a stove which I would say dates from 1890s at latest.The grate is in excellent condition, and there is a fire brick to store and radiate heat behind the fire chamber. The fire brick has a crack up the middle of it, but is still working.The dimensions of the stove are: Height 69cm, Width (side to side) 53cm Depth (front to back) at the top of stove, 34cm at the bottom (incl. ash pan “lap” of the stove) 53 cmI have included general photos of the stove and photos of it broken down into its removable parts, so you can what’s what. I’ve also put in photos of the repairs needed and missing parts (see below). As you can see from the photos the rear flue is the standard Victorian French flue which is not circular, but more like a rounded rectangle. The width (centre to centre) is 19.7cm and the height (centre to centre) is 9cm. It has rounded corners. I would think you would have to weld up your own adapter to convert it to a more standard circular flue, but you may be able to buy one on the internet.N.B. PLEASE REMEMBER – it is NOT SAFE to run a stove through a flue pipe which is smaller than the flue on the stove (larger is ok), so work plea e work out the “surface area” of the hole, and check that the “surface area” of the open end of the flue pipe you are using (diameter 4”, 5”, 6” etc.) is greater than the stove flue hole area. Hope this makes sense. Do ring me if you want me to explain it more clearly!Missing parts 1. The cast iron round plate or cover for the wood feed hole in the top of the stove (which doubles up as your hotplate) is missing (see photos). These sit on the small lip in the hole, and usually have a notch thing in the middle where you stick a metal rod too lift it off to feed the stove with wood. They are fairly easy to come by, or you could make your own from sheet steel of appropriate thickness, and weld something on top to make it easy to lift off. The diameter of the missing plate is 14.5 – 14.7cm approx. A home-made replacement would not spoil the look of the stove as there is another enamelled cover which sits over the top of the stove (see photos). This hinges up, when you want to put the kettle on or put wood in, but anyway you can’t see the round plate most of the time. However I would think this part does need replacing before the stove is used as otherwise you would get some smoke coming out of the top of the stove (unless it was drawing so strongly through the rear flue, that nothing could come out of the top. 2. The other missing part is the cover that I guess would have sat over the “lap” of the stove, covering the ash pan. The enamelled surround is there, but there is a gap where you can see down into the ash pan (see photos). This is really just cosmetic, and to stop ash spilling out, but you could use the stove with it missi... read more

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