Cast Iron Stove Plate, Martic Furnace, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Dated 1761
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Auction Closed
January 20, 12:37 AM GMT
Estimate
1,200 - 1,500 USD
Lot Details
Description
Cast Iron Stove Plate
Martic Furnace
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Dated 1761
Inscribed 1761 M C FORNES IN LANCD GT.
Height 19 ⅜ in. by Width 21 ¾ in.
A nearly identical plate is in the collection of the Bucks County Historical Society (see Henry C. Mercer, The Bible in Iron: Pictured Stoves and Stoveplates of the Pennsylvania Germans, (Doylestown, PA: Bucks County Historical Society, 1961), no. 266).
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