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Reply #20 - Apr 2^nd, 2011 at 7:49am

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This is my CC Harding, roughly how old would it be? I've noticed the different wording on some lids.

It has legs, they sunk into the rocks.

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Reply #21 - Apr 3^rd, 2011 at 6:21pm

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G'day Maloney.
I've been told the newer Harding ovens are easy to pick as they have a ten digit phone number on the lid which begins with 03 and not 053 like yours. Not sure which year we went to ten digit phone numbers so that baby of yours pre-dates that.
BTW what size is that one ? Some Hardings have the size on the lid, some don't.

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 #22 - Apr 4^th, 2011 at 9:40am

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It's a 13" poddy.

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Reply #23 - Apr 4^th, 2011 at 10:15pm

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G'day maloney, the more I look at all Harding ovens the more differences I see, they are all basically the same but with small changes, your 13 is different to the ones I have as it has no size on the lid and the lid handle is more rounded than mine are.
Same thing with other sized Hardings I have, they are all slightly different, some have the size on the lid the others don't, although they stuck with the same classic shape, molds were replaced and small changes crept in however putting an age on an oven is almost impossible. That's the way I see it anyway.

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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 #24 - Jul 6^th, 2012 at 5:42pm

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G'day every one just found this site love my camp oven cooking i have two Hardings camp ovens that are still in use

Cheers Craig

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Reply #25 - Jul 6^th, 2012 at 5:47pm

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hiluxxcab wrote on Jul 6^th, 2012 at 5:42pm:

G'day every one just found this site love my camp oven cooking i have two Hardings camp ovens that are still in use

Hi and welcome to the forum. Nice pair of ovens.

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Reply #26 - Jul 6^th, 2012 at 7:55pm

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Thanks Derek
Maloney yours looks the same as mine i bought mine in the early 1980s

Cheers Craig

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Reply #27 - Oct 21^st, 2012 at 4:45pm

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maloney wrote on Feb 6^th, 2009 at 8:02am:

What would a 13" CC Harding be worth? I paid $40 for one at a swap meet and it is in real good condition. I dont want to get rid of it because it would probably be the only piece of aussie iron i would ever be able to get my hands on but would like to now its value.

I would say $350.

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Reply #28 - Oct 31^st, 2012 at 10:14am

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Kingsthorpe David wrote on Oct 21^st, 2012 at 4:45pm:

maloney wrote on Feb 6^th, 2009 at 8:02am:

What would a 13" CC Harding be worth? I paid $40 for one at a swap meet and it is in real good condition. I dont want to get rid of it because it would probably be the only piece of aussie iron i would ever be able to get my hands on but would like to now its value.

I would say $350.

KD

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Fortunately there are still a few reasonably priced Harding's to be found out there around the traps. Recently, I picked up a 13” Harding in excellent condition from a secondhand goods/junk shop not far from where she was manufactured in Ballarat. At the time when I was fossicking through the shop I nearly missed her, because she was partially hidden in a dark corner of the shop behind a heap of other stuff and only a partial glimpse of a leg and the bottom edge of her base alerted me to her presence. When I pulled her out into the light, she appeared quite dusty and I would say she had been sitting there for quite sometime, however on closer inspection and apart from some superficial rust she appeared to have had very little, if any use and had never been seasoned. The shop keeper initially wanted $115 for her however after some haggling he accepted $95. She was not as inexpensive as some Harding’s have reportedly gone for in recent times, however I reckon she was a reasonable deal just the same and a nice little addition to the collection.
I have since cooked a few meals with her and have found her to be a very fine cooking pot.

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Reply #29 - Dec 18^th, 2013 at 9:11am

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I've heard there are some Harding repo/fake's out there doing the rounds and I'm interested in the opinion of some of the Harding gurus on this forum, as to whether my recently acquired 13 incher is the real deal or not.

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