Any idea what year this is?
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3 piece top makes it very early.
Pipe cap dampers make it early.
Chrome knob makes it early.
Those last two can be put on a later stove, but the welded step top dates it.
Those three things were upgraded in that order by 1976.
One other detail is the door cast mold looks to be from a corrected door pattern. Notice the TED in Patented doesn’t match PATEN- This door casting pattern was misspelled PATENDED. This is from the corrected pattern.
The reason I say probably, is not knowing the state it came from. If there are any markings giving that information, it could be 1974 if from B.C. Canada, Washington state or Oregon. (But I don’t think so due to the door correction) Other fabricators were not licensed until 1975.
Pipe cap dampers make it early.
Chrome knob makes it early.
Those last two can be put on a later stove, but the welded step top dates it.
Those three things were upgraded in that order by 1976.
One other detail is the door cast mold looks to be from a corrected door pattern. Notice the TED in Patented doesn’t match PATEN- This door casting pattern was misspelled PATENDED. This is from the corrected pattern.
The reason I say probably, is not knowing the state it came from. If there are any markings giving that information, it could be 1974 if from B.C. Canada, Washington state or Oregon. (But I don’t think so due to the door correction) Other fabricators were not licensed until 1975.
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