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Happy Post Memorial Day to my AW friends~!

Glad I was able to hold your hand and guide you down memory lane…..

Thanks for the positive response to my obsessive collection of those spurting wonders known as percolators……..

Today I feature a beautiful Corning Ware Electric percolator illustrated by an artist named Eric Sloane. Sloane was a renowned artist and author noted for his nostalgic studies of earlier America, its barns, farms and tools.

The drawing is colorful in a subtle way. Mostly tans, browns, black and gray with splashes of red, green, and blue. The scene is called ‘The Brook’ and it’s on two sides of the coffee pot. It shows a covered bridge as well as a horse drawn buggy and driver. Eric Sloane’s signature is on the bottom right.

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That is a

BEAUTY, Gary.

Thanks for sharing all this functional art with us.

One of my aunts was a die-hard coffee drinker, and for years had a LARGE, large GE. It was sort of oval, had an oval basket, and had the cup gauge in the handle. I have never seen one since.... Do you have one? :)

(For me, it has to be decaf, for medical reasons.)

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
I bet that oval pot takes a strange filter.

Love the Corningware! So beautiful!

You might make me a perc fan after all! They are very noisy and dramatic when running and the glass models are fun.
 
That's it!

Thank you, Gary.

That is the one.

For a few years, I was sure that my aunt had the only one.

The lid was sometimes employed in that household as a cutter for homemade dinner loaves.

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
One and two and three and repeat!

Wow, Gary!

Artsy coffee as well.

The Corning percs made great coffee. (The financial story of Corning Glass works is another American tragedy.)

The weight of the pot, the heating element, the coffee and the water made that package weigh in at around 5-6 pounds.

Who needs the gym. Just drink two or three pots in 6 ounce cups and you'd have great upper arms.

Kelly
 
Another very interesting Corning variant! And I always liked that oval GE. Neighbor across the street had one.

Jason funny you mention filters. I went to have some coffee ground in Starbucks and the dear girl didn't even know what a percolator was. All she could focus on was what kind of filter was I going to use. I do use the wrap-arounds, so I finally told her that, and she figured it out. Whole generation of people growing up not knowing what coffee really tastes like!
 
All they know is Mr. Coughee, Starbucks, and Coffice (my word for office coffee made in one of those big Bunn machines).

Once you go perc, you'll never go back.

Once you go french press/vacuum pot, you'll forget about perc lol.
 
Agreed!

My Bunn has been in storage for as long as I can remember. Now that I think about it I should probably just put it on eBay and get rid of it. I have been using my Sunbeam Vacuum Coffeemasters so long now I don't think I could go back. I even take one on vacation when I go. Most think I'm nuts but I don't care. Actually I have converted a couple folks from their drip coffeemakers to a vacuum style!!
 
Gary that Corning pot is just beautiful. Makes you just want to sit down and have a cup of coffee with a friend. Terry
 
Wraparound filters

I tried using the wraparounds in my various percs, but they were just a little too fussy for my poor little brain that early in the day.

Sun-E was the day I discovered that regular "cupcake" filters work just fine--the smaller ones in my Oster and Sunbeam percs, the big ones in the Presto/Hoover.

veg
 
Ok, Gary......

Another aunt had the big Sunbeam perk with the lighted dial from the late 50s-early 60s.

Either that, or an assortment of RegalWare Poly Perks! I bet you have all the colours, from Poppy to Sand.

Love and laughter (and great memories!)

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
oval GE

IIRC some models of that oval ge had a mini brew basket, to make 1 or 2 cups, I think it was orange. Is this the one I am thinking of, that d@#n GE always putting a mini basket in something. alr2903
 

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