"Gregory Morrow" > wrote in message ink.net>...
> DJS0302 wrote:
>
> > >I all my years, I never saw a percolator that shut itself off. No pause
> in
> > >perking... they just kept on going. When we were satisfied with the time
> > >elapsed or the color and character of the coffee visible in the glass
> bubble
> > >of the percolator lid, it was time to unplug and serve.
> >
> > My aunt had percolator that she had to use on the stove. The pot and lid
> were
> > made out of glass and the basket and stem were metal. For some reason she
> > never went out and bought an electric percolator.
>
>
> Years ago something like an electric percolator was a fairly expensive item.
> I have some old magazines from the late 50's - early 60's with small
> appliance ads...even a cheaper electric percolator back then could be about
> the equivalent of a hundred or more bux in today's $$$...a deluxe model much
> more.

Manning-Bowman small electrics were something special: Art Deco and
Bauhaus design in last-a-lifetime rugged appliances. That all changed
when they went downmarket. Oddly, that makes the later M-B examples
more valuable on the collector's market: they are rarer, because most
of them have been junked.

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Chris Green