1963 Hotpont Hallmark Electric Range

[kenb]

Greetings!

New member here with a question about a stove that I found on craigslist.

We had the same model when I was a kid and I've been looking for one locally for quite a while. It looks like I've finally found one!

I also wanted to say how much I have enjoyed this website. I've been interested in old washing machines and other appliances for many years...

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/hsh/537083404.html

 

[gansky1]

Very nice - congrats on the find! I'll bet that's a good range being made by GE. The burner shouldn't be too hard to come by - there are lots of GE parts for ranges still around.

Westinghouse also had a version of this style range as well - seems everyone wanted on the Flair wagon!

Hotpoint also made a similar built-in range with essentially a slide-in range & oven that had a warming/storage compartment above it. Lights underneath and fan/vent as well. I saw one once at an estate sale and a few weeks later it showed up behind Lowes, but it had been thrown off the truck and ruined.

Keep us posted on your new baby!

 

[launderess]

What Woman In Her Right Mind

Would clean her oven with her bare manicured hands? *LOL*

Someone in advertising wasn't thinking that one through, but then again it probably was a man.

(Ducks and runs...)

L.

 

[kenb]

Thanks gansky1 !

I meant to ask if anybody knew anything about parts availability, but in my excitement I forgot to ask. Looks like you answered my question!

 

[dalangdon]

Ken, my neighbor has that exact stove, and I know he has gotten some parts for it. I will ask him where he got them.

Those Hallmarks are really fun. Better than the Flair, in some ways. I really like the vent and the light.

Dan

 

[paulg]

Estate sale

I too saw the "drop-in" version just a month or so ago at an estate sale. The house was all in 1960s chic. I think it was Riverside, Il.
The range wasn't for sale though. We bonded for a minute then I had to move on... sigh.

 

[toggleswitch]

apparently pyrolytic self-cleaning systems had not yet come

Very cool design, but........

small ovens, and not at all deep
hard to lift heavy roasts up
light-colored, refective interior shows every spatter

The staggered cooktop elements are faboo, however.

 

[dalangdon]

Toggle, the day I can't cram a 20 lb turkey into a Flair or Hallmark is the day I hang up my apron and head for my rocker.

Besides, everybody knows self-cleaning ovens are for old ladies and shut-ins. ;-)

 

[danemodsandy]

Toggles:

Actually, '63 was the year that GE (then as now, Hotpoint's parent company) introduced P*7 pyrolytic self-cleaning. But for a year or two, it was a GE exclusive. Other companies began to introduce it one-by-one. By '66 or '67, pretty much everybody offered it; I have the Spring/Summer Sears Big Book for '67, showing self-cleaners in several models at a range of price points.

I think other companies had to licence GE's patent on pyrolytic technology, but don't quote me on that.

 

[laundromat]

Self Cleaning

The hallmark was self-cleaning right? ----Yea you cleaned it yourself!

 

[jamiel]

What exactly was the GE patent? Something on the porcelain chemistry?

 

[toggleswitch]

Perhpas the idea of

1- a high-heat incineration cycle.
2- Locking the door for safety and to limit oxygen. With "excess/free" oxygen the grease would spontaneously combust with visible open flames.
3- A "catalytc converter" (heater) in the "exhaust flue/vent" to burn away smoke and any volatile gasses released.



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