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Hi Roy, I have read a lot of books, original old catalogs, old advertising, and related information on old heating and cooking stoves. In anticipation of writing a book on the subject(a book I ultimately decided not to write), I also spent hours going through the considerable amount of stove related materials held in the collections of two different museums. If I have ever seen or heard the term “rick”, it got past me without catching my attention. However, I didn’t doubt your explanation in the least. At one time people from distant places were more different than they are today. Although travel and communication are slowly homogenizing these differences, people in different areas still haven’t lost all their regional words, expressions, accents, practices, and beliefs. In the south an iron frying pan is a “spider”, and a grocery bag is a “poke”. In southern California “bitchen” means neat/cool, and a car title is a “pink slip”. In some places words are pronounced with non-existant “r”s, and in others crayfish are crawfish or crawdads. Some areas of Canada are notorious for adding the occasional “eh” to the end of a sentence. Although I don’t know this to be the case, I suspect “rick” is one of those terms that is/was used in some areas but not in others. In any case, I now know one more thing than I did before Ray started all this by using “rick” in his post...Al English
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