Moore's Seventeen Stove

memco man wrote:Hi Badger Freezer I have not been able to find any infomation on this stove if you have any it would be appreciated I am sure that other people in the fourm would like to see it as well
Thanks Memco man

Here's some ads from 1926 thru 1929. 1926 had only two sizes. 1927-28 and 29 had three sizes.
Hope you like them.

Good find Badger. Always fun to see those early ads. Thanks for posting.

Very cool stove. Here is an ad from the Tuscaloosa News, Oct. 17, 1929.

here's another from the 30's(1937)

here's some more Moore's Seventeen ads from the 30's
1931 and 1936, respectively.

Another 1936 with some interesting ads of the times.

1937. Deluxe and Standard models

They call one a circulator, and the other a radiant heater. I was misunderstanding the circulator to be a heater with a pump, that would heat water, and pump it to a system. and the radiant, wouldn't. I think I'm missing something. Could someone please explain the difference? Thanx.

A, "circulating," stove is one that uses natural convection as the means to move heat away from the heated stove surfaces to the room.
The cabinet around the outside of the stove is a just a sheet metal shell which directs cold air in from the bottom of the stove which then rises out of the top as it is heated.
A radiant stove heats by direct radiant heat from the fire. Air is heated the same way but all of the surfaces around the perimeter of the stove are heated as well.
A mica base burner is/was called a, "radiant heater," because the thin mica walls allow for a very large portion of the direct radiant heat from the fire to escape to the room.

OK William, I get the 1st 2, but still don't understand a "Mica"- BB heater. 1st time I've ever heard this term.

joeq wrote:OK William, I get the 1st 2, but still don't understand a "Mica"- BB heater. 1st time I've ever heard this term.

Mica base burners are the real fancy ones. A picture below.

here's another mica radiant heater from 1919.

I see. I was under the impression those were called "Jewels". (Which is probably a brand name.)

Jewel was, indeed; a popular brand at the beginning of the last century. They made wonderfully designed parlor heaters.

Thank you for all the for all the wonderful information I had lost track of this post sorry it took me so long to respond those adds are really great and also very helpful it gives me a little history behind the stove by the looks it is a pretty good one guess it is time to get it hone and set it up all that is left is get some new mika and put it in the front door.

Thanks again
Memco man