• No serial behind besides just the voltage indication *

  • Can't find any of this model anywhere from Schott Ceran *

by OpeningStructure6745

9 comments

  1. Well it looks ancient, the voltage might indicate whether it was made before or after 1987. If it says 220V, it was before 1987.

    Edit: Thinking of it, it’s made of metal and doesn’t have a grounding pin. That’s not only super scary but even more an indication of how old it is. I assume 1950/s1960s. And no, nobody in their right mind would use something like that nowadays – and you shouldn’t either.

  2. Looks more like rather old laboratory equipment.

    Based on the colour, the piece was manufactured sometime between the 1950s and 1970s.

    Schott is the manufacturer, Ceran is just the trade name of the glass that is used for many cookers.

  3. Since it’s not a ceran hotplate, but metal, it probably is from the last century.

    The color of the paint and the design looks to me like it’s from the 60s or early 70s.

  5. The Schott company is still around. Maybe shootinf them a quick e mail might give you the answer you seek.

  6. Went into a bit of a rabbit hole – I think this may be a different Schott company which no longer exists but was bought by the efbe company to form efbe-Schott. The logo is similar: https://www.efbe-schott.de/efbe-schott-footer/Informationen/UEber-Uns/

    There is an identical hot plate for sale here, just in a different color. My feeling is that this may be from the fifties rather than the sixties or seventies.

    https://emmaus-ne.ch/produit/plaque-electrique-vintage-schott/

  8. probably 50-70s those old connectors are long gone…

    maybe you can unsrew the bottom and find some manufacturing date on the components inside

  9. Did my research: The Schott AG today is mostly known for its ceramic/glas making branch. Probably its most famous product today are Ceran stove tops. Shortly after ww2 they started to produce a larger variety of stuff beside glas and ceramic. Specifically I know of ovens, hair dryers, water heaters and some medical equipment.

    Now here comes Malaysia into play: During its expanding phase in the 60s and 70s Schott also founded a factory in malaysia in 1975 in the city of Penang as its first branch over in asia.

    So you being from malaysia and having this it would just make sense that it was produced locally, with the informations from the other users regarding the connector type it may have been produced between 1975 and 1987.

    I was unable to find a similar electric stove in german sources however any information about older consumer electronics from them are very rare and stuff like this (I can only imagine if it is actually made in germany then it would have been very cheap around here and the majority of these things would have found their way to the scrapyard decades ago already) may even have been exclusive to export markets.

    Sources:
    [https://www.schott.com/de-de/ueber-uns/unternehmen/geschichte/unternehmensgeschichte](https://www.schott.com/de-de/ueber-uns/unternehmen/geschichte/unternehmensgeschichte)

    [https://www.schott.com/en-gb/about-us/company/regions-and-locations/penang](https://www.schott.com/en-gb/about-us/company/regions-and-locations/penang)

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