The Buckman Manufacturing Company

• The Buckman Manufacturing Company
  Posted by Nick on 19 Oct, 2019 22:01
• As suggested by Charlie, my "Buckman Family Photo" (individual photos to follow...)
  
  
  
  
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• #1 Reply
  Posted by Nick on 19 Oct, 2019 22:09
• Large "Beehive"
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  qwertyuiop
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  Posted by Nick on 19 Oct, 2019 22:15
• Small "Beehive"
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Hard to read but looks like Pat 1871...
  
  
  
  
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  Posted by Nick on 19 Oct, 2019 22:19
• Smaller vertical boiler
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Posted by Nick on 19 Oct, 2019 22:20
• The three together
  
  
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  Posted by Nick on 19 Oct, 2019 22:27
• I had bought the one with better paint thinking it would replace the other, not realizing they are completely different...
  
  I do not know if the wood frame is original, just that it is very old. I also am not sure about the burner, but it matches the Buckman style...
  
  
  
  
  
  lap seam boilers
  
  
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  Posted by Nick on 19 Oct, 2019 22:30
• Smaller horizontal
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Posted by Nick on 19 Oct, 2019 22:31
• Larger horizontal
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Posted by Nick on 19 Oct, 2019 22:32
• Love the hand-painted details
  
  
  
  
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  Posted by Nick on 19 Oct, 2019 22:36
• And finally the boat... I believe this is a Union Mfg. Little Wonder. I put it with the Buckman engines as I was told Union Mfg. took over Buckman in the 1880's...
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Posted by Nick on 19 Oct, 2019 22:37
• almost forgot... the burners
  
  
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  Posted by crazydoug on 20 Oct, 2019 07:45
• Nick, that is quite a collection of Buckman's!  I don't think that I had ever heard of Buckman; maybe I thought they were Weeden's, if I saw one in the past.  But, it just so happened that another Forum member gave me this little Buckman at the Coolspring engine show.  My son had repaired a circuit board for his Stirling engine, and he wanted to give this engine to my son as a thank you.  Since my son doesn't collect engines, I may get to keep it, or at least I'll get to store it for him until his next trip home.
  
  I don't know any more about it than what the pictures show, but it sure looks good on my shelf!
  
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  Posted by Nick on 20 Oct, 2019 07:50
• Very nice Doug, but I wish that one was in my family photo 
  
  Good to see what the weighted valve that both of my horizontals are missing is supposed to look like
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  Posted by crazydoug on 20 Oct, 2019 08:00
• Quote from: Nick on 20 Oct, 2019 07:50

  Very nice Doug, but I wish that one was in my family photo 
  
  Good to see what the weighted valve that both of my horizontals are missing is supposed to look like
  

  Any idea of the age and model of this engine?
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  Posted by Nick on 20 Oct, 2019 08:05
• I do not know enough about them... so a rough guess would be 1880-ish. Would love to be corrected and learn more about them...
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