Postby silverport » Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:36 pm
Hello Tripoli&Rouge
In wintertime central heating at home and in summertime holiday where central heating often isn’t usual — temperature lowered this night inside rapidly from + 34 ºC to + 28 ºC.
So you couldn’t know that yours object was widespread in whole Europe and still in use in Southern Europe in wintertime (October until March).
Rich and poor heated their feet the same way: A most times round table had hand wide above the floor — for to be less attacked by floors cold air circulation - a round cut out where the charcoal basin where placed. A tablecloth reached the floor and gave warm to knees and prevented rapid temperature loss inside table area.
In detail: Charcoal till it glows red-hot filled in an insert basin, material iron or brass. This inside basin inserted in e.g. yours rim and transported by fixed handles to tables base; circle inserted for reason of sturdy security.
Persons sit round the table, tablecloth on knees and feet on yours rim; here in past time very often beloved first possibility holding hands — and so both get “warm” twice.
Yours rim isn’t used very often — sign of wear seems to me are minimal. Insert basin in brass material is missing — your rim could be plated brass.
Kind regards silverport
P.S. I’m furthermore busy research Epiphany 1875.
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