Magnet Stove
I'm cleaning out a house & discovered what I think is an old coal burning stove. The only wording on it is "Magnet". Can anyone shed any light on what I have? I moved it out into the room, so next time I'm at the house I'll clean up the little fellow & get some better pix!
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Looks to be from the late 1800s amd different from the usual Oak stove. You need to hunt up the pieces that go on top. Better pictures and one of the grates would help.
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That's an interesting stove. It looks very similar to the series of stoves produced for the Pennsylvania Railroad during the 1880's. These were used to heat waiting rooms in train stations.
I have used one of these as the Station in New Hope, PA is heated by one of these stoves. I have seen other examples of this stove.
It is an Anthracite heater and is able to produce high heat out puts in a short period of time. They operate on Nut sized coal.
I have used one of these as the Station in New Hope, PA is heated by one of these stoves. I have seen other examples of this stove.
It is an Anthracite heater and is able to produce high heat out puts in a short period of time. They operate on Nut sized coal.
It's possible that it could have been associated with the trolley line in Easton when that was operating-it was found in a building next to what was the end of the trolley line. Is the stove you saw still in New Hope? (I need to go to Bucks County soon anyway!)
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Yes the stove is still in the New Hope Station, heating the waiting room as it has done for many decades
Click on this link below and you will see another example at the Strasburg Railroad in Lancaster, PA. They pretty much look like identical sisters to yours. As you can see they are not museum pieces, they work for a living as they should.
Click on this link below and you will see another example at the Strasburg Railroad in Lancaster, PA. They pretty much look like identical sisters to yours. As you can see they are not museum pieces, they work for a living as they should.
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That is an unusual grate set. The identical stove at New Hope which I once had to start each morning, doesn't have the original grate. It has a rudely fashioned, homemade one made out of a street drain grate.