I recently was given what appears to be a salesman’s scale-model maple evaporator (photos attached). It's an interesting little piece. It doesn’t have any writing on it anywhere. Comes in 4 parts: the arch (with operating firebox doors and ash door), the sap pan (divided into 3 sections with flues), and two syrup pans. Looks to be made of tin that is riveted and soldered together. Very nice workmanship. The configuration of the pans is reversed from those in most use today: syrup pans fit in the model near the stack, and the sap pan fits into the end with the fire doors (I know these types of evaporators existed, but don’t know much about them).

I've only ever seen one other model like this. It is in Gary Gaudette’s office at Leader Evaporator Co. Can anyone tell me anything more about this? What manufacturer or model of evaporator does it represent? How old is it? Anything other info?

In case you were wondering....NO...I'm not interested in selling it.