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Ever seen one of these??
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looks like something the catholics would come up with. this kneeler doesn't cause enough suffering, let's make it hard and hot and pointy.
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was there like a drying shelf on the bottom? looks like there are lugs to hold a shelf on the bottom.
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We'll never see it all.
Are there any names on it?
Where is it located?
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Is that HW or Steam? The manual vent looks like it would be water. Might make a nice seat on a cold day……..for a short time
Or a piece of steel between the lugs you could cook breakfast on it.
I wonder what the purpose of the step in it was?
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Gosh.
Retired and loving it.
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”easy” fix for that pesky bleeder drip! 🙃
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a "piddle catcher"!
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Automatic humidifier
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humidifier but not very automatic. unless the bleeder is leaking.
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For @Stet, Back in the day, we would need to work (or play) in the snow. We would wear something my father called galoshes over our shoes to protect them from the wet snow and ice. At the end of the day, that shelf at the bottom of the radiator might be a nice place to dry out your shoes and/or galoshes so they were dry for the next day!
As far as @psb75's contraption is concerned, That might be a Semi-automatic Humidifier. As the trough dries out, you just open the bleed port to refill for more humidity. It might be a once an evening thing. But eventually you would need to add water to the boiler if there was no auto feed in the basement.
Edward Young Retired
After you make that expensive repair and you still have the same problem, What will you check next?
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Not the only "FootRest" idea on the market back in the day!
Edward Young Retired
After you make that expensive repair and you still have the same problem, What will you check next?
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That is a boot drying radiator. There was a shelf, or actually a pan across the bottom.
And of course the other thing is a humidifying pan. I believe a Chinese version is still sold from time to time, though it just hangs along the back of the radiator on S-wires, as the thin tube radiators that came out in the 30s don't have room for the tin pan.1 -
saw this in a butlers pantry under a sink countertop.
Home owner, 1927 2-story, single family
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That little ledge could be for drying boots or shoes.
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That's for drying plates or keeping them warm before they're served.
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Automatic humidifier. Had these in a CT house!
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Those are H. B. Smith "X-Ray" plate warmers or pantry radiators. I have the same, but in a vertical arrangement like normal wall radiators.
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Pretty close
One way to get familiar something you know nothing about is to ask a really smart person a really stupid question1 -
Saw this one and couldn't help but think of the simple yet innovative mastery of its day. Small space, and a decorative flat top to heat an item of your choice. So very nice.
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