Hand Fired JACK POT!

 
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Post by Smokeyja » Sat. Jan. 28, 2012 9:08 pm

So I went to an estate sale today to check out an older franklin stove but didn't leave with a stove but a deep throat band saw from the 30s/40's I beleive, I haven't dated it yet and a few hand tools for cheap. Well it was a cool find but I was itching to buy stuff today so I went to another estate sale and saw an old wood stove and some other things that were way over prices so I left that place. I decided to check out one of the architectual salvage antique stores around the Ghetto... I guess most people don't know of the place? Anyways it is a really awesome place and the prices are just perfect. I got to talking to the guy and he happens to nead a black smith/decrotive iron worker to do some work on the side here and there... Great for me because instantly he likes me and I guess their isn't that many decorative ironworkers in Richmond who like antique work. Well First little stove I saw was a chaffette in really nice condition that he likes the most, so that's a score for me because I know who I can sell my Deville wood parlour stove too when I finish the restore on it. We walk out back to see some of his other stoves and too my surprise, with the exception of 2 stoves, they are all coal stoves! Score number 2! They are all really old direct draft stoves but so cool and Cheap too! I think there is about 8 of them now and an old coal cook stove in decent condition. He asked me some things about the stoves and I told him everything I knew and that I will probably buy most of the stoves he has. But he is interested in my restoration skills so I am going to show him the deville and the Cannon heater next week and probably pick up two of the coal stoves including one that was made here in Richmond VA by the southern stove works. The other is a Coles hot blast made in chicago. There are others and I have been talking to him about base burners/heaters. I am going to try to get him to find some of these and become his restore guy. My plan is to buy these stoves, restore them, try them out, and sell them back to him or others. Or we might make a deal where I restore them for him and he pays me. Anyways I can't beleive I found this place. Not only does he sell cool coal stoves I think I am going to furnace most of my house with what he has for sale because of his reasonable prices. I left there with a large Hope Chest made by a VA company in the early 20th century.

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This insert reminded me of what Pierre is looking for but it does not have the back pipe.
All of these stoves had refractory in them but they need to be relined.

I didn't have time to to take anymore photos or to throw two of these stoves on my trailer like I wanted to because the wife was calling me to get back soon and help with the baby...so this will have to wait until next week. I don't plan on keeping any of these in my home permanantly to burn. I just plan to restore them burn them and see how they do and then send them to a new home. It was too much excitement for one day. :out: :junmp:

BTW as if the prices weren't good already he said he would sell me the stoves for a good deal less than he has listed to the general public. It just seems like a Win Win here

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Post by wsherrick » Sat. Jan. 28, 2012 9:17 pm

The silver stove is a Franklin style parlor stove. I have one. This is what the stove should look like restored.

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Post by Smokeyja » Sat. Jan. 28, 2012 9:22 pm

wsherrick wrote:The silver stove is a Franklin style parlor stove. I have one. This is what the stove should look like restored.
This was not the franklin style I went to look at the first place. It is in decent shape though. I am hopeing that maybe some side work can help fund a base heater. I still have my eye on the glenwood that Doug has ;) .

Nice stove btw William. I did not know you had a franklin as well. I'll bet it's nice to sit and watch an open coal fire.

I know this place is not a jack pot for up north but it sure has more coal stoves than any other place ive been to near here ;)

 
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Post by wsherrick » Sat. Jan. 28, 2012 9:38 pm

That is a very nice Cedar Chest. I have one almost exactly like it that I got from my grandmother. Mine is a lot more beat up than that one is though. Most of those stoves are Bituminous Burners that are/were very common in the South. I have seen a thousand of them. They are reliable, basic stoves and they would be good practice in getting some restoration experience under your belt.
You can either sell them or make a little money off of them that would be great. Most of them look like they can be saved.

 
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Post by Smokeyja » Sat. Jan. 28, 2012 9:55 pm

wsherrick wrote:That is a very nice Cedar Chest. I have one almost exactly like it that I got from my grandmother. Mine is a lot more beat up than that one is though. Most of those stoves are Bituminous Burners that are/were very common in the South. I have seen a thousand of them. They are reliable, basic stoves and they would be good practice in getting some restoration experience under your belt.
You can either sell them or make a little money off of them that would be great. Most of them look like they can be saved.
It is a Lane Cedar chest. I am not sure if they made their way up north selling them but they seem to be popular in a few other states as well. Yes sir, these stoves will give me good practice and I will practice on making them as air tight as I can as well. You know this seller might be interested in my cannon heater as well. I am pretty sure he will buy that Deville, that little thing would go fast around here.

 
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Post by Smokeyja » Sun. Jan. 29, 2012 12:48 am

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found a cool coles hot blast add.

 
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Post by coalturkey » Sun. Jan. 29, 2012 6:33 am

It looks to me as if Locke did the same thing at the next level with his flues in the Warm Morning stove. You can fill a 6 inch bed of hot coal with 70 lbs of fresh coal and walk away as it will take right off be it anthracite or bit.


 
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Post by Smokeyja » Sun. Jan. 29, 2012 8:16 am

coalturkey wrote:It looks to me as if Locke did the same thing at the next level with his flues in the Warm Morning stove. You can fill a 6 inch bed of hot coal with 70 lbs of fresh coal and walk away as it will take right off be it anthracite or bit.
Well the flues were WMs answer and the tube on top is what all the others did. But they sure do sound the same.

 
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Post by 009to090 » Sun. Jan. 29, 2012 9:22 am

Good find, Josh! Keep the pics coming.....

 
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Post by LsFarm » Sun. Jan. 29, 2012 9:37 am

Next time you go to the jackpot yard, get some better photos of the silver insert, showing inside, doors, and the back. That's an interesting stove.

And, measure the height of the smoke pipe outlet.. lets see if it will fit in front of a 'modern' fireplace, that has a too-low lintel for most coal stoves.

Nice find, a rusted-iron treasure chest !!

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Post by Smokeyja » Sun. Jan. 29, 2012 9:52 am

Will do Greg!

 
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Post by MURDOC1 » Sun. Jan. 29, 2012 10:10 am

That cedar hope chest you have there, made by Lane, is regarded as one of the finest built cedar chests in the world... Hope you don't plan to fill it with coal!!!

Lane cedar chests made their way around the world, not just here in the states!!! They had a good long run, starting in 1912 and just closed the doors in 2001...

 
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Post by Smokeyja » Sun. Jan. 29, 2012 10:31 am

No it will get filled with sheets and blankets and baby cloths. I bought it for my wife as a gift for the birth of our baby. From what others have sold for online I would say I got a pretty good deal. $95
It matches the closet I redid with aromatic cedar boards and the trim I made with western cedar. Cedar is some great wood.

I didn't realise it reached around the world. The lane furniture company is owned by an international company now. They still honour the safety recal on some of their locks and you can still buy the little graduation boxes if you write to them. At least thats what the website said. I was surprised when my Mom told me she had been given a small lane cedar box when she graduated high shook in NC. I guess everyone knows the name. Thanks for the info!

http://www.vahistorical.org/publications/historyc ... r_lane.htm

I'm not sure how old it is. I couldn't find a serial number but I did find a style number 4803 on the bottom
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With the Skelton key hole on the front and the build of the older locking mechanism I would say its pre WWII

 
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Post by nortcan » Sun. Jan. 29, 2012 5:44 pm

Nice you can have these places around you.

 
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Post by mastiffdude » Sat. Feb. 04, 2012 6:36 pm

smokey, Good on you,Puictures are interesting.Have fun Jim


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