OLD VERY COLLECTABLE FALKIRK 3 LEGGED IRON POT WITH LID AND HANDLE SMALL 12CM HIGH

HIGHLY COLLECTABLE AND VERY RARE NOWADAYS TO FIND. AN OLD FALKIRK IRON POTJIE WITH LID AND HANDLE.
IT IS SMALL 12CM HIGH AND MORE AN ORNAMENTAL PIECE BUTYOU CAN COOK SOME SMALL POTION IF YOU LIKE.

Cast iron existed as cookware in Europe since the iron age, but the three-legged pot is believed to have arrived in Africa in the 17th century with the early explorers.
Potjiekos emerged in the Netherlands and Spain, when communities would cook together during wartime. The pots are likely to have arrived in SA from the Netherlands with Jan van Riebeeck. The early settlers would shoot wild game and add it to the existing pot, daily.
It was adopted by the indigenous people, who replaced their clay pots with the iron potjie.

THE FIRST LOCAL MANUFACTURER OF THEPOTJIE POT WAS THE NOW-DEFUNCT FALKIRK COMPANY.
DISTRIBUTOR LIONEL LEETHEM SAIDCHINESE-MADE POTJIE POTS ARE IN ABUNDANCE NOW, BUT FALKIRK WAS THE ONLYSUPPLIER FOR NEARLY 70 YEARS.
"It was a superb pot. It was thick and heavy, so you would need only a little coal to heat it and it would retain that heat to slow-cook food. It had health benefits, especially for children, because of the iron that was transferred from the pot. It tenderised even the poorer cuts of meat."
THE FALKIRK POTS TRAVELLED ALL OVER AFRICAAND WERE SO POPULAR THAT THERE WAS AN 18-MONTH WAIT FOR THEM.
"The Durban Falkirk Iron Company(now Defy) moved the foundry from Jacobs to Newcastle around 1987. In early1992, it went into liquidation. A Zimbabwean company bought and moved the plant to Gweru. ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO THAT WENT INTO LIQUIDATION, SO YOU WILL NOTFIND A FALKIRK POT FOR SALE ANYMORE!

SIZE: 12CM HIGH WITH HANDLE 8CM DIAMETER AT WIDEST
Condition: INSIDE SHOWS SIGNS OF RUST. STILL IN GOOD CONDITION. HAS A BEAUTIFUL BRONZE FINISH
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