AUSTRALIA'S ORIGINAL AND BEST CAMP OVEN AND OUTDOOR COOKING AND CAMPING FORUM

Nov 27^th, 2007 at 8:02pm

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G'day all

Brand new to the site and after a bit of help if I can to identify a couple of CO's the wife and I got from NZ. Have attached photo's and would love to hear any thoughts on these as they only arrived yesterday from the old father in law...very well loved and now to be part of the family heritage!

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Geoff

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Reply #1 - Nov 27^th, 2007 at 8:09pm

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Hi Geoff and welcome to COCIA. Just fixed the image link to the photo. Wink

I have never seen one of these camp ovens before myself.

What is the size mate. If those are 12" tiles it's sitting on it's a monster.

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Reply #2 - Nov 27^th, 2007 at 8:13pm

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Thanks Derek

Yes it is very big...measures about 16" or more!

I have another one I will try and post now...would you mind having a look at it as well?

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Geoff

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Reply #3 - Nov 27^th, 2007 at 8:17pm

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No problem

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Reply #4 - Nov 27^th, 2007 at 8:23pm

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I can't seem to link it properly yet Derek...sorry. Whoops...got it!

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Geoff

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Reply #5 - Nov 27^th, 2007 at 9:13pm

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Geoff,

Very interesting. It's just going through my head, could they be from the olde country?

Can we have a photo of the profile of the pot with the 'ears' holding the bail showing at each side, please?

& one photo of each lid and pot bottom?

& you've got a nice camera!!!

I'm very interested in learning what the ovens were like on each continent. Finding out about the pots from the UK or Netherlands or France pre-World Wars is a challenging task.

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Reply #6 - Nov 28^th, 2007 at 6:10am

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They are gems, I've never seen anything even similar. As LK said, more pics and let me be the first to offer to take'em off your hands when you decide you don't want them.
pd

When I die I hope my missus doesn't sell my camp ovens for what I told her I paid for them. pd

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Reply #7 - Nov 28^th, 2007 at 6:47am

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Little_Kopit

The first photo is of the first CO and then the second is obvious...the next 2 photo's are of a 10" (stamped, or cast, in lid) that we got from him as well.

These CO's were used by the father in law when he was a shepherd in NZ 40+ years ago and have made many many meals since, mostly in the backyard at the family home while the sheep was turning on the spit, or the hangi was steaming away over the back fence. I'll try to get more information from him when I talk to him on the weekend.

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Reply #8 - Nov 28^th, 2007 at 6:50am

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Do you need more photo's?

There was another one that measured 2' across but I think the brother in law may have gotten that one.

Sorry pd...my wife would kill me if I mentioned selling them...but it would be nice to know what they might be worth!

Geoff

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Reply #9 - Nov 28^th, 2007 at 7:16am

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I'd like to see one of the bottom of each pot and of each lid.

Not that I have any idea of what they are, besides being really nice ovens. But one likes to put possibilities in ones brain

It's the detail on the lids that's making me think 'olde country', a place where one needed to make something a work of art to compete

Or maybe the design would identify who made it.

Treasures to be sure. Like PD, I am green with envy.

Undecided

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