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Subiaco Museum > Records

STOVE: GAS, METTERS EARLY KOOKA

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c. 1935

Overview

Green enamel outer surface of legs (cabriole), frame for gas rings, front of stove and outer margins of oven door. Cream enamel oven door, top of oven forming tray below gas rings. Black enamel gas rings. Black/white fleck enamel inside oven. Bakelite gas knobs and oven-door knob. PARTS: a. Stove body b. Gas Ring - Right c. Gas Ring - Left d. Gas Ring - centre e. Rack to hold Gas Jets - front f. Rack to hold Gas Jets - back g. Gas Jets front - Right h. Gas Jets back - Right I. Gas Jets front - Left j. Gas Jets back - Left k. Grill Grid - Right l. Grill Grid - Left m. Grill Gas jets n. Cream enamel tray, below gas rings o. Oven Rack I p. Oven Rack II q. Oven Gas jets - Right r. Oven Gas jets - Left

Historical information

Made at Metters Ltd. Foundry and Enameling Plant, Subiaco c1935 from new (probably) in home of Mr. Con Kalaf, greengrocer and Mrs. Kalaf. Mr. Kalaf came to Australia from Greece, and lived at 44 Barker Road, Subiaco. The stove remained in the Barker Road house until the death of Mr. Kalaf in about 1998.

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Registration number

cwa-org-43-2000.19a-r

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Inscriptions and markings

Motif on oven door: ' Early Metters Kooka'

Keywords

Barker Road, Subiaco

Barker Road [44], Subiaco

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Statement of significance

Example of domestic cooker of the period.

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