Wagner hammered teakettle

[Anthony Richerson]

Another cleaning project,  this one is #2127 , the book only shows a 3127, are they comparable in value?

[Anthony Richerson]

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[Will Person]

They are comparable in value.   But those old tea kettles are not worth allot.   But they are nice.   I have a FEW ::)


Will 8-)

[Jeff Seago]

Anthony it looks to me like you have one that will be nice and easy to clean!!  None of those pesky black spots that I can see.

[Anthony Richerson]

No black spots, but the lime is about a 1/4 inch deep on the bottom and looks to have stalagmites hanging on the inside, looks like a cave!

[C. Perry Rapier]

They are comparable in value.   But those old tea kettles are not worth allot.   But they are nice.   I have a FEW ::)


Will 8-)

 ;D ;D ;D I KNOW what you mean Will. I say that sometimes too.  ;)

But you don't see too many like this, or I haven't anyway. Anthony, when you get this cleaned up real nice and purdy, be sure to come back and show it to us.  :)

[Mark Ritter]

Anthony, I have one just like yours. I really like the hammered aluminum but as for price in todays market I really don't know. It is just to hard for me to try to keep up with todays prices. I know I really didn't pay much for the one I have. Has anyone out there seen the one marked #3127. It shows the picture of it in the RB on page 67 but it doesn't show the bottom. Are there just the two sizes of these or are there other ones?

[Harry Riva]

Mark, My WW hammered TK is # 3127.

Harry

[Mark Ritter]

Thanks Harry, I really appreciate that information. I tried to look up the catalog numbers in the RED and Blue Book and all I found was the one like Anthony and mine listed as #2127. I had always thought that the one in the RB listed as #3127 must be an error. I wonder why Wagner would make two of these that are exactly alike and give them different catalog numbers? I mean that they are both 5 QT. and alike in every way that I can tell or am I missing something here? I know it wouldn't be the first time.

[Harry Riva]

Mark, If you look at the picture in the RB of the 3127 you will see that the edges of each segment on the side has a flattened separator where the 2127 has the "sharp" edge on the sides of each segment. I hope this makes sense but if you look closely at the two pictures, here and the red book, I think you will see what I'm referring to. I wonder if the 2127 had an issue with the strength of the edges where the flats meet and they went to the flattened edges on the side of each segment? Maybe just aesthetics with the flattened edges being sort of accents. Beats me.
Harry

[Chuck Rogers]

There is a similar error in the BB with the #3 Griswold flat bottom tea kettle. In the front, it shows a picture, but says the P/N is unknown. In the back it has the P/N for the #3. Not everything in the books is 100%.  

[Mark Ritter]

 I didn't see that before but now that you point it out it is crystal clear. The picture looked to me to be a little over polished but now that I took a real close look at it, well it's obvious. Thanks again for opening my eyes for me. This has puzzled me for quite some time and now it's solved.

[C. Perry Rapier]

For the sake of folks like me trying to follow along here. I am hearing that there was an error in the books about the 3127 and the 2127, but, actually there was a 3127 AND a 2127, two different catalog numbers for two different pieces and the difference is what Harry pointed out. Does that sound close? Thanks.  :)

[Mark Ritter]

There is a #2167 hammered Wagner tea kettle which both Anthony and I have. It is listed in the RB, Wagner Catalog Numbers. Also in the RB on page 67 it shows a hammered Wagner tea kettle that looks alot like Anthony's and mine but it states that it is a #3167. It didn't show the bottom markings so I wondered if it was a mis print. Although it shows the picture of it (page 67) it doesn't list it in the catalog numbers. I wondered what the difference was and Harry was kind enough to point it out to me.

[Jeff Seago]

Well I am glad that Perry spoke up because I guess I was all sorts of confused as well  :-/  Thank you very much Mark for straightening all this out  :)

[Anthony Richerson]

Thanks for all the info!

[Anthony Richerson]

Its as clean as I will ever get it, this thing was worse than cleaning a dirty waffle iron. What do you think about painting the handle black again?  Leave as is or use a flat oil base? I dont know what type of paint was original.

[C. Perry Rapier]

Hello Anthony. You did a very nice job. MAN, I see a lot of elbow grease there.  :o

As far as painting, I don't much about paint, but painting the handle would not be a bad thing at all I would think.