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Title: can you help to identify
Post by: agent12 on May 06, 2008, 09:01:08 AM

can anyone help me identify this item, I am assuming it is something to do with turkey? ???

Title: Re: can you help to identify
Post by: cogar on May 06, 2008, 11:07:18 AM

Well now, just from the picture it looks like a "decorator" tea kettle, a show/display item.

A tea kettle with that type legs would be impractable for use ..... unless there was an electrical plug on the back side (like a coffee pot), ........ or, .... it was used to put a "hot" liquid in (coffee, tea) and then placed on the table, a serving cart or a serving tray.

But I am just guessing.

Title: Re: can you help to identify
Post by: D&b antiques on May 06, 2008, 03:40:41 PM

I would say that's a  very good guess. there normally called ( steeper's)

Title: Re: can you help to identify
Post by: agent12 on May 06, 2008, 11:24:25 PM

thank you for that, no their is no place for a plug., i will certainly take it further

Kay

Title: Re: can you help to identify
Post by: cogar on May 07, 2008, 03:30:32 AM

Quote from: D&b antiques on May 06, 2008, 03:40:41 PM

I would say that's a  very good guess. there normally called ( steeper's)

D&B, I thought of that after I had done posted, ..... that I should have stated "hot water" instead of tea. No one makes a pot of hot tea, ..... right.

I didn't know they were called "steepers", ..... that just has to be British.