Antique Guillard Copper Saucepan
Sur La Table is now offering antique cookware (as well as retro-cool seltzer bottles, salt shakers and other bygone acoutrements) that they find in Paris and flea markets and other various places. Of course these are one of a kind, so when they’re gone, they’re gone.
This particular pot (unsold as of this writing) was manufactured by Guillard, a copper manufacturer now defunct, that was renowned for it’s high quality cookware. Copper is a highly regarded metal because of it’s great conductivity… The downside is that, well, it’s toxic. Which they didn’t know then so much, but if you wanted to use it now, you would need to have it lined with tin.
Of course, Sur La Table can be a bit expensive, but there are some really cool things in this new marketplace – things that would be hard to find online and certainly hard to find short an antiquing trip to France (which isn’t a bad idea, either).
We would like to say that reusing is the ultimate environmental act, but given it’s been bought and shipped across the world, we can’t really be so pious. At least about these.
