What can I say? Here we have another brand new Hostess No35 made from scratch at our workshops here in Bristol. This one is going into newly restored 1930s Showmans van. What a beauty!
Category: Hostess Stove
The Hostess stove was fitted to many Gypsy caravans towards the late 1800’as and early 1900s. It came in two sizes and was often highly decorated with gleaming Nickel doors and trivets and scarlet vitreous enamel front panel. An iron fiddle rail was common as well as tiled skirting often with scenes depicting horses. They were manufactured by the Columbian Stove and Iron Works of Smith and a Wellstood. They are now incredibly rare and sadly many caravans and vans are missing them.
If you are interested in acquiring a Hostess please do get in touch. O.J.Osborne & Co and currently in the process of providing for this forgotten stove.
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Brand new Hostess No35!!!
Here’s something a bit special! This is a Hostess No35 we have made from scratch for a client. We only take on a few of these a year as they are such a lot of work to get them right. The client chose ‘Northern county blue’ for the colour of his enamel and I got to say it looks stunning!
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Hostess Mahogany fronted coal draws
Here we have our new mahogany fronted coal draws for the Hostess Range. These are exactly as the ones supplied by Mellors of Oldham in the early 20th century. The only difference being that our versions have stainless steel draws.
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Stunning Hostess No35 for showmans van
They might be a lot of work but these brilliant little Hostess range really are a thing to behold. These ranges would have been fitted to the vast majority of travelling wagons and van for both the showmen and gypsies of the late 19th/ early 20th century. This examples dates from circa 1920 and now restoration is complete it will be returned to its original van
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Hostess No35 Showmans
And here’s another beautiful Hostess No35 from a 1930s showman’s van. You can’t get much posher than this! We completed a full restoration on this including new casting, vitroeus enamel and nickel plating. A picture speaks a thousand words comes to mind.
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New workshop
Well we have finally begun the move to the new (much larger) workshop so thank you to all those who have been patient during this time. You can expect big changes to the website, services and products over the coming months with some exciting new developments like the manufacture of very high quality replica ‘Nipper’ stoves, ‘Hostess’ ranges and authentic Larbert and Guidwife ‘Back cabin stoves’!
I will post with more details on this as time goes on.
All the best.
Olly