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Builds, Repairs, Show Your Machines! => Collections & Pictures => Topic started by: Nick on October 19, 2019, 10:01:16 pm

Title: Re: The Buckman Manufacturing Company
Post by: bigal on October 23, 2019, 08:06:19 pm
A great collection of Buckmans Nick.

BTW: I have a copy of a catalog for Buckman if anyone is interested.

Greetings,  very interested in a copy,  photos of the pages, and if willing to sell.

I have a number of them and a restored pumper I did that is somewhere in the archives.

I have a
Title: Re: The Buckman Manufacturing Company
Post by: Weedensteam on October 23, 2019, 05:52:38 pm
I have patents listed here from the 1870's, scroll down

https://vintageinternetpatents.com/toys.html#steam
Title: Re: The Buckman Manufacturing Company
Post by: Nick on October 21, 2019, 11:18:02 pm
The printing and font is just something else Nick, seriously seriously good !!!

It had to be good, the engine was probably a whopping dollar or so when new  ;)
Title: Re: The Buckman Manufacturing Company
Post by: Jim on October 21, 2019, 11:12:10 pm
The printing and font is just something else Nick, seriously seriously good !!!
Title: Re: The Buckman Manufacturing Company
Post by: Nick on October 21, 2019, 11:04:30 pm
What a grand collection Nick, that old cardboard box is just fabulous.

I was very disgusted with the way the seller packed it and shipped as cheaply as he could... was shocked how well it survived the trip...

I cannot believe that it could be 140 years old!  :o  If I make it into my 90's, I may see the day that these engines are 200 years old  :o
Title: Re: The Buckman Manufacturing Company
Post by: Jim on October 21, 2019, 10:59:15 pm
What a grand collection Nick, that old cardboard box is just fabulous.
Title: Re: The Buckman Manufacturing Company
Post by: Nick on October 21, 2019, 10:50:50 pm
Thanks Rog, Charlie and Bob!  ;D  Rog, I know there are others out there with much more impressive collections, wish they would share them with the rest of us...

BTW: I have a copy of a catalog for Buckman if anyone is interested.

Interesting  ;)
Title: Re: The Buckman Manufacturing Company
Post by: Hero on October 21, 2019, 11:28:41 am
Never heard of Buckman, but those are nice engines.

You have some great stuff, Nick.
Title: Re: The Buckman Manufacturing Company
Post by: txlabman on October 21, 2019, 10:20:52 am
A great collection of Buckmans Nick.

BTW: I have a copy of a catalog for Buckman if anyone is interested.
Title: Re: The Buckman Manufacturing Company
Post by: IndianaRog on October 20, 2019, 04:35:11 pm
Nick, I have seen a Buckman here and there...but your collection is fantastic.  I bet there is no one in the US with such a large and varied group of Buckmans.

Well done for sure,
Rog
Title: Re: The Buckman Manufacturing Company
Post by: Nick on October 20, 2019, 08:05:58 am
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...
Title: Re: The Buckman Manufacturing Company
Post by: crazydoug on October 20, 2019, 08:00:17 am
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?
Title: Re: The Buckman Manufacturing Company
Post by: Nick on October 20, 2019, 07:50:22 am
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
Title: Re: The Buckman Manufacturing Company
Post by: crazydoug on October 20, 2019, 07:45:22 am
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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Title: Re: The Buckman Manufacturing Company
Post by: Nick on October 19, 2019, 10:37:32 pm
almost forgot... the burners

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48927189851_b1ef52e2be_b.jpg)
Title: Re: The Buckman Manufacturing Company
Post by: Nick on October 19, 2019, 10:36:56 pm
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...

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48927445572_d748e63965_b.jpg)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48927251851_231cae7bba_b.jpg)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48927444412_79574aa18b_b.jpg)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48927443992_f483905705_b.jpg)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48927443612_73158eed38_b.jpg)
Title: Re: The Buckman Manufacturing Company
Post by: Nick on October 19, 2019, 10:32:30 pm
Love the hand-painted details

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48927425182_71593edea4_b.jpg)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48926701568_03db7bb61c_b.jpg)
Title: Re: The Buckman Manufacturing Company
Post by: Nick on October 19, 2019, 10:31:29 pm
Larger horizontal

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48926702073_82a1a59de3_b.jpg)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48927425707_88852c9395_b.jpg)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48927231816_028f8cf25c_b.jpg)
Title: Re: The Buckman Manufacturing Company
Post by: Nick on October 19, 2019, 10:30:05 pm
Smaller horizontal

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48927231356_c461b6eae5_b.jpg)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48927425437_7a22828e9d_b.jpg)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48926701808_ee08c8e3d7_b.jpg)
Title: Re: The Buckman Manufacturing Company
Post by: Nick on October 19, 2019, 10:27:11 pm
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...

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48926679643_986bb7c20c_b.jpg)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48926679538_70449db557_b.jpg)

lap seam boilers

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48927208691_19727d4dfb_b.jpg)
Title: Re: The Buckman Manufacturing Company
Post by: Nick on October 19, 2019, 10:20:35 pm
The three together

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48912438857_a4f52b68df_b.jpg)
Title: Re: The Buckman Manufacturing Company
Post by: Nick on October 19, 2019, 10:19:57 pm
Smaller vertical boiler

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48927384517_4cb9ce27d0_b.jpg)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48927384212_de612a26e4_b.jpg)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48927189931_d1637b0175_b.jpg)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48926660408_34359dc69c_b.jpg)
Title: Re: Buckman Steam Engines
Post by: Nick on October 19, 2019, 10:15:37 pm
Small "Beehive"

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48927170766_a952b9bc4e_b.jpg)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48927361447_1f312a740e_b.jpg)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48927361257_9fe509ba3b_b.jpg)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48927166966_db0e1d5f61_b.jpg)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48926637058_27c6060d80_b.jpg)

Hard to read but looks like Pat 1871...

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48926636963_afbef8e7f8_b.jpg)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48926636913_8b58b46c37_b.jpg)
Title: Re: Buckman Steam Engines
Post by: Nick on October 19, 2019, 10:09:23 pm
Large "Beehive"

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48926616233_becae75d83_b.jpg)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48926616058_5db683ff38_b.jpg)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48926615648_5b53db75a7_b.jpg)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48926615913_a0d0a18955_b.jpg)
qwertyuiop
Title: The Buckman Manufacturing Company
Post by: Nick on October 19, 2019, 10:01:16 pm
As suggested by Charlie, my "Buckman Family Photo" (individual photos to follow...)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48926583398_aa6b794712_b.jpg)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48926583313_7e1d729857_b.jpg)