Vintage West Bend percolator – mint in box – today’s ebay pick

Vintage West Bend percolator - mint in box

So…I must stop buying all these great retro relics mint in their boxes! This is a great great great item, so EXCRUTIATINGLY painful as it is, I set it free into the retroblogosphere!

  • Comments

    1. puddletown says:

      Happy Birthday Pam, and many happy nostalgic returns.

    2. Sumac Sue says:

      We make our coffee in old percolators — currently we have two old GE’s and a cute little Farberware number. We have several because they are so cool, but also, if one conks out, we have a backup. We think percolators make the richer, hotter coffee compared to more modern contraptions.

      We used to live on a wornout old farm that we called The Coffeepot Ranch, because about the only thing the place could produce was a good cup of coffee from our old percolator. Now our 59 ranch is The Coffeepot Ranch.

      (We think people should give their homes names, like the homes in English novels. Does anyone else have a name for their wonderful abode?)

    3. FRAN says:

      Happy birthday to the kid who made me a mother. The coffee pot brings back memories of always having a pot full and a Bisquick coffee cake made because neighbors always dropped in to visit.

    4. Retromodgirl says:

      Happy Retro Birthday, Pam! Here’s wishing you many more!

    5. Kitschy Kimberly says:

      My father still makes his coffee in one of these.

    6. sablemable says:

      I have a 4 cup Farberware perc that makes great coffee and keeps it hot w/o the coffee having that burnt taste.

      Drinking coffee is very retro and with the serving pieces all matching, it is quite classy.

      Sue, your idea for naming our homes is great! I’ll have to put my think cap on and name mine.

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