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Dennis Morgan · Joined: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 75 Location: bloomington IN

As listed in an up coming auction. 18th century iron wood burning French stove. Pictures and details not yet available. Who knows this might be an interesting piece. I will update later.

ditmurier · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:07 am Post subject:

Please get Photos or any other info you can!
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Sanscoeur · Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 522 Location: Tulsa, OK

Is it a FRENCH stove, or a Canadian stove from the French colonial period?
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Tourblanche · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 6:17 pm Post subject:

Keep cool ! Very Happy

Heating in New France starts like this ( well.... close to that Rolling Eyes

)

and ends like this :

It is an interesting story ,

http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0002912

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forges_du_Saint-Maurice

http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/lhn-nhs/qc/saintmaurice/index.aspx

Of course , the story mentions a fidler and the devil
http://www.dark-stories.com/le_diable_des_forges.htm

a genuine classic .

Very Happy

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Lancette · Prolific Joined: 18 Jul 2007 Posts: 851 Location: Montreal

http://bd.archivescanadafrance.org/acf/doc.xsp?l=en&base=fa&id=FRCAOM_Canada002_frcaom5dfc131b&fmt=tab&qid=sdx_q0&from=&ss=true

Click on the link on the miniature face of Champlain in the lower right section of the page ( View the digitized document )...

This in Newfoundland... in fact at Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelons Islands. This relatively late because it is in metric measurments (post Revolution, the French one Wink

). And it is really unbelivable!

The plan of the fisherman house, where this brick and iron stove was built could be seen here:
http://bd.archivescanadafrance.org/acf/doc.xsp?l=en&base=fa&id=FRCAOM_Canada002_frcaom5dfc126b&fmt=tab&qid=sdx_q0&from=&ss=true
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