Varieties of the Antique Stove
Oak Stoves, Todd Stove, Franklins, Cottage, Column, and Base Burners — I never realized the great variety of stoves in the world, but of course, inventors and manufacturers have been tinkering and refining them since Benjamin Franklin made dramatic improvements to the basic fireplace, so it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise. Still, when you begin to investigate the antique stove , you’ll discover a whole world of stove aficionados opens up. Here’s just a small number of the stove types I’ve found:
The Base Burner, Base Burner Globe Type, Circulator, Double Cased Air-tight Surface Heater, Cook Stove, Parlor Cook, Cottage Parlor, Cylinder Stove, Cannon “Pot Belly,” Oak Stove, Step Stove, Ten Plate, Column Stove, Fireplace Heater, Todd Stove, Franklin, Oval Air-Tight, Kitchen Heater, Box Stove, Wood-Coal Range, Gas Range, Laundry Stove, Combination Range, and Farmer’s Boiler. It seems as if there’s almost as many stove types as there are grains of sand on a beach. Here’s even more with some colorful names: Sunray Stove, Station Agent, Zenith Cookstove, Dandy Oak, Acorn Cookstove, Caboose Heater, the Peerless Stove, and the Star Gem.
Many of these stoves date from the 1800s to early 1900s, some even from the 1700s. A number of these stoves are now highly collectible and may be worth thousands of dollars.
One of the more interesting types was the Round Oak Stove . It first appeared around 1886, a popular model. A tall, plain black circle of a stove, containing a removable ash door. Later, in 1887, the ash door was designed with a hinge. The round Oak Stove was the Model T of stoves, and many thought it to be the best in the world at providing heat. You could also control that heat, creating as much or as little as you liked, as well as burning whatever fuel you liked, which at the time would have been not only wood, but soft and/or hard coal.
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