Vintage Stove

[autowasherfreak]

A vintage stove, can't make out the brand, but I like the looks of it.

 

[a440]

<span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino; font-size: medium;">Skelgas Constellation.</span>

 

<span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino; font-size: medium;">I love how the burner control knobs are on the top!</span>

 

<span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino; font-size: medium;">Great looking stove!</span>

 

<span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino; font-size: medium;">Brent</span>

 

[henry200]

A Skelgas Constellation!  I haven't seen one of those propane stoves in ages.

 

[autowasherfreak]

The only thing I could make out with these lousy eyes of mine was constellation, LOL.

 

 

[a440]

<span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino; font-size: large;">Here is an early 1950's model.</span>

 

 

 

[a440]

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[tomturbomatic]

I can see that the older one has Harper Center Simmer burners. My mom's Crown had those. When turned down to simmer, there was a distinct click and then just 4 little buds of flame came from the little center part. It was enough heat to keep 6 quarts of spaghetti sauce bubbling gently and then even that little flame could be turned down, but only in a kitchen with no drafts which could extinguish it.

 

[polkanut]

Both stoves are beautiful, however the older unit has a bit more class IMO.  Who built these beauties?

 

[westingman123]

I do believe I have the cookbook that came with a Skelgas range. IMHO, the older is the most attractive.

 

[tomturbomatic]

The only domestic manufacturer of gas ranges that I am aware of that put the controls up high on ranges with standard burners over the oven construction (as opposed to the high oven design of the 60s) was the Globe Range Corp. They made them for Maytag and there is a big thread about the company.

Some safety standard eliminated the design although I guess that if the user was careless or stupid or wore big baggy sleeves while cooking, it could be more of a hazard to reach across a gas cooktop than an electric one to use the controls.

 

[jamiel]

Wow. What a nice looking stove.

 

[mysteryclock]

I like the looks of the bar!!!

 

[jamiel]

I was doing a little more research on this stove...there were definitely a couple generations of the Constellation range, but I didn't think that it looked quite like the Maytag Dutch Oven units...so in doing more research, found that they may have been sourced from the Vernois stove company in Mt. Vernon, Illinois. If you do a search on "Skelgas Constellation" you see several versions from the early to the mid 50s. The above stove looks to be late 50s. But, just searching Constellation gets you images of an identical stove, but branded Vernois Constellation. I vaguely remember growing up in St. Louis (in subdivisions of the late 50s) built-in gas units branded Vernois. Also out there were Philgas-Tappan stoves (similar situation...propane from Phillips 66). Apparently to fill-out the product line there were also Skelgas Constellation freezers and refrigerators (!)