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Nick, I believe this to be a C. W. Woodson engine, that had plans featured in a series of Popular Science magazine articles back shortly after WWII. I also believe that casting were later provided by at least a couple of different sources, while some home machinists simply fabricated everything from bar stock or poured their own castings from forms.

I have such an engine that is still lacking a couple of critical valve linkage parts which somehow, I have not yet gotten around to fabricating.

Here is a nice all brass build that I found online:

https://birkpetersens.blogspot.com/2011/12/8-pound-baby-engine.html

Then here are a few shots of the engine that I have:

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