Back with another weird early stove Barstow franklin

Hi everyone, i wanted to share an early piece I found locally. Barstow stoves were made down in Rhode island and most surviving pieces ive found are patented 1852 and are definitely wood burners. If anyone has visited the house museum Castle Tucker in Wiscasset Maine there is one that was installed in a bedroom in 1859 and is a wood burner. However i came across a different model that I haven't seen before and I believe its a coal burning model. The draft is located differently as to pull the air up and through the fuel as opposed too across the fuel thats sitting on the bottom of the stove. The stove is also extremely thin where you could only fit some very small very thin wood. It is also missing the side load door of the wood burning models.
Now there is no real control over the draft, no shaker and only an early style sunken ash pit. In my mind it seems like it might as well be a detached coal fireplace in terms of how it operates and while a franklin stove it is nothing like my 1880s Penn Franklin (which has been doing excellent service this winter warming a large portion of my old drafty house). Ive attached some photos of the wood burners along with my possible coal find. Im debating if i want to use it as a mostly atmospheric setting stove and not a major heat source.

Hi , In terms of style your stove looks very much like my circa 1860s Columbian stove works Parlor stove that heats my lounge . Mine is recessed at the bottom of the firepot where a cast iron ash pan catches the ash .

What the hell W--ya got a LOUNGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! .>) Wondered how long before ya noticed this topic!!

Posh word for Parlor

Those stoves are amazing.....and that setup in the "parlor" is gorgeous W.... Very nice looking hearth area.

Kevin

Appreciate your kind comments Kevin . It’s surprising how much heat the stove will produce , sometimes we have to open the lounge door to the hallway as it gets too warm

LOL, gotcha W------------------- not even gonna ask what a posh is!! quote=Wal post_id=774986 time=1614763872 user_id=26785]
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Fred , Posh is a British word for fancy . So if you went to a expensive restaurant, if you were working class like I am and not used to going to somewhere like that you would say you were off to a posh restaurant. In America you call your lounge a Parlor , so I said lounge was a posh word for Parlor. We all speak the same but sometimes our interpretations of words are different. Like you say hood on a car , we say bonnet .

Forgot to ask Fred , how are things with you ?

Cdon2948,

Regarding the second stove with the grate:
Unlike Wal's it does not look like the bottom cover has an air control built into it.
Maybe the bottom cover can be leaned to provide a sort of control, other than that it would probably operate more like a bin in an open fireplace.
Also you might want to find out the measurement of the separation between the iron in the grate.
A stove of that age may only work with large pieces of coal. I would think nut coal would work fine, but you don't know until you know. (see thread "An article (pics) of Early Anthracite Stove History")

"Posh" stands for "port out, starboard home". It refers to the desired side of the ship when traveling to and from India. Since it was the upper class that could avail themselves of the choice, it became associated with all things of exaggerated luxury.

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Wed. Mar. 03, 2021 8:23 am

"Posh" stands for "port out, starboard home". It refers to the desired side of the ship when traveling to and from India. Since it was the upper class that could avail themselves of the choice, it became associated with all things of exaggerated luxury.

Thanks for that Paul Harvey morning moment, nice little tid bit.
I only wish I had a lounge or parlor for such a stove.

Indeed H--thanx muchly Richard!!

I have a lounge but I call it a recliner. Lol

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Wed. Mar. 03, 2021 8:11 am

Cdon2948,

Regarding the second stove with the grate:
Unlike Wal's it does not look like the bottom cover has an air control built into it.
Maybe the bottom cover can be leaned to provide a sort of control, other than that it would probably operate more like a bin in an open fireplace.
Also you might want to find out the measurement of the separation between the iron in the grate.
A stove of that age may only work with large pieces of coal. I would think nut coal would work fine, but you don't know until you know. (see thread "An article (pics) of Early Anthracite Stove History")

Funny enough i had read that article before I found this stove. I agree that it would most likely take large stove size pieces. I think it would operate like those coal grate fireplaces you see in British victorian era homes. I would also imagine it would heat up pretty quickly with all the air in the world bring drawn up through the coal bed.