Office of Steam Forum for Model & Toy Steam Gas & Hot Air Engines

This was likely home made by a machinist as their hobby, the quality is really beautiful, and is almost museum level in my opinion. It's impossible to know if all the parts are inside to allow it to run on steam or compressed air. Some members of this forum are more than capable and willing to work on engines and could evaluate if it needs anything to be a running engine. If your intent is for it to grace a shelf, it certainly does that already! Just don't turn it into a lamp please haha!