Yep, it's a toy cast iron stove. My mom had one. I donated it to the Pickford Area Historical Museum, Pickford, Michigan as I did with most of here stuff.

[They're not dead. -tterrace]

They weren't then, but they are now.
Still full of interest - keep them coming!

tterrace, they may not have been dead in 1914, but I suspect they are now. :-(

I would stop showing the pics of dead cats -- it's below Shorpy standards! Seriously....

[They're not dead. -tterrace]

On the stove in the photo (missing in the one on Ebay,) then I wonder if you could have put a can of sterno in the mini-stove, and actually made a little pan of biscuits?

I can hardly get my Cats to vacuum, much less cook.

Anyone who listened to the Smothers Brothers comedy albums in the mid 1960s can tell you what flavor of soup that kitty is preparing.

" . . . and Mom made me eat it!"

One exactly like this if for sale on eBay. "Lancaster Eagle Miniature Cast Iron Stove w/ Pot Pans."

That stove is a bit too ornate and well executed to be a toy, yet a bit small for a salesman's sample, and it seems to lack coin slots so it's probably not a bank.

I'm guessing it's a high-quality toy, but am more than open to correction by my betters.

Hope there are more to come. Thanks, Dave.

When you realize that that kitten was probably stuffed, things take a much, much creepier tone.

[Frees used live animals. -tterrace]

A man with infinite patience and a vivid imagination