1903 "The Old Trusty Incubator" Antique bator~share/question

Echoinghills

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Feb 21, 2010
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Hi all... wanted to share this. A friend of mine moved into an old farm house, was going through the basement where the canned goods and cellar is. They found this incubator and asked if i wanted it. Of course i did..would be a great conversation piece...plus i am almost certain it is worth something given it's age and condition. I googled and found a 1925 model in a museum glass case... it was a wooden model though. My question is, anyone know what this might be worth? It does have some type of container on the side, for oil or gas, and has tubing that runs inside the top of the incubator. Thought i would share....
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Thank You both!!! I agree...it is so neat to see stuff like this. After posting this, i seen someone found an old "Buckeye" incubator.... now that is really neat too! Looks like about the same setup with the canister on the side, for some type of fuel. I am not wanting to sell this, but of course it is always nice to know what you have and what it may be worth...curiousity is killing me.
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all i saw was a wafer thermostat wafer,,, and assumed it was electric........... but for that day and age an electric incubator would be very pricey if there was one in 1903................ maybe you could refurbish it, make it look nice AGAIN, and possibly remove the canister for the oil, and add a heating element, (like the ones from hovabators) and use a wafer thermostat with it, i think if you did that it would still have it's own aged antique look,, but you could be able to use it
 
Yeah, most of them old ones ran on kerosene.
If it has a waffer t-stat it was most likely converted. The majority of rural farms durring that time didn't have electricity.
Really Cool find!!!
 

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