If period-correct restoration is the only criteria then what was there before ? If that is an unknown than both the import and Baltimore heaters are period correct. So, if heating efficiency is not a factor then it comes down to personal choice of what looks best to the eye of the house beholder.gardener wrote: ↑Fri. Feb. 14, 2020 9:45 amI thought Cdon2948 wanted to make their house period correct ???, undo updates that previous owners did to the house, so a stove/insert is more an accessory than for utility. In any case, the picture posted of the house it looks like the chimneys are interior to the floor plan, so even if an insert does not convect into the room as well as a stove, an insert would not be as bad as if the chimney were on an exterior wall. Especially if flue pipe into the flue is sealed off so the hot air in the fireplace heats up the fireplace mass. Though if it were me, being that the fireplace hearths are level with the floor, I would try to make a franklin style work, even if I had to take the legs off, being an older home with tall fireplaces I imagine the flue exit would clear the opening.
New to the forum and coal for that matter.
As for a French antique, I was reading that coal used to be imported by ship into eastern cities until railroads were able to transport coal from the interior mines. Even afterwards there were still imports, but much less. My point, a foreign insert seems reasonable to meet a period correct. Just my ponderings
Paul,Sunny Boy wrote: ↑Fri. Feb. 14, 2020 11:22 amIf period-correct restoration is the only criteria then what was there before ? If that is an unknown than both the import and Baltimore heaters are period correct. So, if heating efficiency is not a factor then it comes down to personal choice of what looks best to the eye of the house beholder.
And yes, many sailing ships delivered coal in the 19th and early 20th century. My first cousin, four time removed was, Captain George Dow, last skipper of the Thomas W. Lawson, the only seven masted schooner ever built. The Lawson was originally built at the height of the coal era to ship coal along the eastern seaboard and the Gulf States. But it turned out to be too big and hard to handle to negotiate harbors, so it was converted to an oil tanker, and wrecked in a storm off the coast of England in 1905.
As I kid I worked in a boat yard that had an oil company next door. Early on, long Island had rail roads into NYC that was a major RR hub. Coal was the major heating fuel in NYC and western Long Island until well after WWI. In the later 1800's, the oil company owner's father had sailed a two masted schooner back and forth from long Island to Boston area delivering coal. That schooner hull was still sitting on the ways next to our boat yard back in the mid 1960's.
Paul
I will ask him for sure then. Do you have any photos of your house you would be willing to share? I'm the guy that goes on zillow to look at old home interiors. We almost bought an 1891 queen anne built by a well known local architect but the seller and realtor didnt winterize it and the hot water radiators burst it was borderline criminal negligence. It absolutely ruined the woodwork, the ceilings were coming down, mold started to grow and the parquet floor was all discolored and trashed.Sunny Boy wrote: ↑Fri. Feb. 14, 2020 12:13 pmI understand the challenges and limits of restoration very well - I worked in the third largest museum system in the country for 9 years, and the last 40 years historic restoration has been my business.
And I own a Queen Ann that had been home and office to the local coal dealers,..... also with a fireplace. But the fireplace was a later addition, that they built much larger than usual and went with a colonial look mantel, with a working fireplace crane. Even though there were several coal stoves piped to the two other chimneys.
The Italianate Victorian next door was built for a local Judge. The front parlor still has the curved top cast iron face plate of a coal basket, but the basket and guts were removed years ago and the opening sealed off with a black painted sheet metal cover. It would be perfect for a Baltimore heater to replace what was there.
Have you tried asking member Paulie if he knows of any Baltimore heaters ? He seems to have a skill at finding them.
Paul
Your stove is a typical French insert from the 20s and it is in perfect original condition!Cdon2948 wrote: ↑Thu. Feb. 13, 2020 12:48 pmIn my hunt for baltimore heaters I spoke with a local antique deslee friend of mine and he gave me a lead for one, well it turns out the stove is a Gallia insert. The exterior looks in great shape and from what I can tell the interior is decent as well. Any experience with european made inserts? I didn't find any others in a forum search.
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Can you tell me how the exhaust vents? Is it direct draft or is there some sort of system in place? Anything finicky about the stoves operation I should know, or is it pretty much fill her up and let her burn for 12 hrs type of deal?Georgelap wrote: ↑Sun. Feb. 16, 2020 4:38 pmYour stove is a typical French insert from the 20s and it is in perfect original condition!
Model "Gallia" was produced from the famous French factory called "Faure Revin".
It is a fantastic little stove and can easily heat a large room (a living room for example).
I have a similar design stove (deville DPF 600) from another French manufacturer of this era and I use it as my primary source of heat.
If you buy this beauty, try the larger sizes of anthracite (it burns strictly anthracite) for example stove coal... and don't forget to fill it to the top upper door.
Personally I burn 30/50mm anthracite and I think it has the same size as the American "stove coal".
Feel free to ask me anything about these type of heaters. I actually have two
If ya don't like, ya can always re-sell. There is a market out there. If I remember correctly--YES my buddy did get 12hr burnsHi!
. It’s easy to fabricate a oval / round adapter to fit the rear of your stove . If yours is anything like mine it gives out a constant heat so enjoy . This is mine , a couple of before/ after pics . 
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