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Eagle range, XF390, purchased 1902. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photograph: Gareth Gardner
Eagle kitchen range
1902
Cast iron
Inscription: EAGLE RANGE GAS STOVE CO. LTD [embossed on the front of the range top centre]
Inscription: EAGLE PATENT / VENTILATION CANOPY DRAUGHT REGULATOR / A HOT CLOSET [embossed on top left canopy]
Inscription: REGENT ST. LONDON [embossed on top right canopy]
Inscription: ROYAL LETTERS PATENT [on grate]
Inscription: KEEP SMALLEST FIRE POSSIBLE / EXCEPT WHEN ROASTING / IN FRONT [embossed above grate]
Inscription: BAKER [on left-hand oven door]
Inscription: TO HEAT OVEN / PUSH IN THIS KNOB [above left-hand oven door]
Inscription: ROASTER [on right hand oven door]
Museum number: XF390
On display: Front Kitchen
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
This early twentieth century cooking range was purchased in 1902, replacing a 'new open range with water boiler' that had replaced the original Soane range in 1875-76: a modernisation for the benefit of the resident Porter, whose family lived in the basement kitchen area and used the range to cook their meals and heat water. This arrangement lasted until after the Second World War when the kitchen was found to be overrun with cockroaches and was condemned as unfit for a family to live in. The Porter was then given a flat on the top floor ending the tradition that the Museum's Curator [Director] lived at the top of the building.
Eagle ranges were manufactured in Aston Cross, Birmingham, but the Eagle Range Gas Stove Company Limited had premises at 127 Regent Street, hence the 'Regent Street London' mark on the canopy (right hand side) on this range. The blue and white tiles are probably contemporary with the range.
Please note that the image of the range attached shows a fender in the foreground that has no association with it.
Eagle ranges were manufactured in Aston Cross, Birmingham, but the Eagle Range Gas Stove Company Limited had premises at 127 Regent Street, hence the 'Regent Street London' mark on the canopy (right hand side) on this range. The blue and white tiles are probably contemporary with the range.
Please note that the image of the range attached shows a fender in the foreground that has no association with it.
Provenance
Purchased 1902 from the manufacturers.
Literature
Soane Archives: Trustees Minute Book 3, Curator's Annual Report for the year ending 31 Dec 1902, tipped into the Miinute Book between pages 277 and 278. This records the purchase but gives no further details.
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