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Ye Old Cook Stove

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This little cook stove is the center piece of our booth space in the Iron Horse Primitives. This beauty used to be my moms. There is quite a story that goes with this little stove. My mom bought it from my father-in-law many years ago. It was in pieces.  She and dad fixed it and set it up. They had it for several years until it was sold in an auction. A few years later, my mother-in-law was at a friend's home and saw the stove and recognized it. The owner was wanting to sell it. My hubby and I bought it and set it up as a decorator piece in our dining room in our old farm house. We sold the farm house to our oldest son and left the stove to him. A few years later he sold the farm house. We took the stove to store it for him. I stored it as a decorator piece in my potting shed.  It was pretty rusted.  I decided to move it to my booth space in the Iron Horse Primitives. To clean it up, I used white vinegar and a scouring pad and scrubbed as