Vintage Guardian Service Cookware - Roaster With Glass Cover (NIB)

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Roaster with Glass Cover from Guardian Service Cookware. Sold new in box.Dimensions: Outside Diameter: 12-1/4 x 10" Outside Height: 4" Inside Diameter: 12" x 9-1/4" Inside Height: 3-3/4"ABOUT GUARDIAN SERVICE COOKWARE Guardian Service cookware (GS), aka Guardian Ware, is a highly sought after collectible for a variety of reasons: the heavy-duty construction of this hammered aluminum waterless cookware makes it almost bullet-proof; the excellent way the cookware prepares food; and the nostalgia of cooking with the same type of cookware your parents or grandparents did.Century Metalcraft Corporation of Los Angeles, California manufactured Guardian Service cookware from the mid 1930s until 1956, when the plant burned down. During this period independent salesman sold GS cookware similar to the way Tupperware was sold in the 1960s. A hostess would host a party at their house, and invite several of their friends over. At these dinner parties, a GS salesman would prepare a delicious meal for the guests, all in hopes of selling them some GS cookware. GS cookware was considered to be an expensive set of cookware during the 1940s and 50s. It would cost about a month's pay to buy the full set. In today's dollars, that would be about $2,500. In many cases, the dinner party guests would only buy one or two pieces. In the 70's Guardian Service read more
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