Antique 19th Century Small store Dutch Foot Stove Punched Tin Iron Foot Warmer Hot Coal Box

Antique 19th Century Small Dutch Foot Stove Punched Tin Iron Foot Warmer Hot Coal Box

Condition: Used (inspected for quality and is guaranteed to be in the condition described)

Please note store that this metal warmer is missing the handle at top; otherwise, the box is substantially good considering the age and history.

There are signs verdigris located in the interior of the box. (It's the natural patina that forms when copper oxidizes. Verdigris also forms when it comes in contact with moisture and other forms of pollutants over time).

Box can be used as a conversation peice and/or an antique showpiece.

Measures:
Height 6"
Width 4 1/2"
Length 7 1/2"
Depth 2 1/2"

HISTORY OF FOOT WARMERS/HOT COAL BOX:

Ceramic hot water bottles were common in the 19th and early 20th centuries. As well as filling hot water containers to warm your bed, you could buy earthenware bottles to use as foot warmers or hand warmers too. Earlier foot warmers used to hold hot coals, or glowing wood, not warm water. In the same way, traditional bed warmers filled with embers were once more usual than hot water bottles.

If you were travelling in cold weather you would hope to have a foot warmer of some kind in your unheated carriage, sleigh, or train compartment. In the 17th and 18th centuries a pierced metal carrier for hot coals was a common solution for anyone who could afford one. They went on being used in the 19th century, while other styles of foot warmer came along too.

The simplest were punched tin in a wooden frame with an earthenware or iron pot inside. Brass was more stylish, and silver warmers were used by the wealthy, although you couldn't actually rest your feet on them. Poor people traveling by wagon or sled could carry pre-heated stones or bricks with them, or even baked potatoes and flatirons.

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