Help me identify this stove please!!

[Jsteger08]

NM&Tco buffalo, NY 14" tall stove. I don't know what it is used for, how old it is or what the story is behind it and also the value. Please help me!!!!!!

[ghopper1924]

Need pictures please!

[Jsteger08]

pics posted!!

[cogar]

On reading your description I was thinking “salesman sample” but the pictures prove it was built “to use” ….. given the size of the flew pipe and damper.

Thus I believe it was built especially to be used as a “portable” camping stove or camp heating stove.

Nice find, I’ve never seen one similar to it.

[Rauville]

In this part of the country I'd probably call that a "fish house stove", used to heat a fish shack during ice fishing season.

[cogar]

Right you are, Rauville, I completely forgot about Ice Fishing.

Must be my CRS is actin up. 

[mart]

NM&T Co  ,, Nantahala Mining and Transportation Co.  I think this has been posted on other forums !! Ran across a couple of questions about a similar stove !!  Same results !!

[sapphire]

Could this have been used on a train or at one mining camps? 

"Outside the small town of Allison in far southwestern North Carolina gold was discovered in the 1930's. Now the Nantahala Midland ran from Tellico Gap N.C. to White Oak N.C. passing thru Allison along the way. The 1930's being hard times the NM wasn't interested in footing the entire cost of extending tracks to the site of the mine. So local business people in Allison knowing what the desperately needed jobs could do for the local economy raised some capital and joined forces with the NM to form the Nantahala Mining & Transportation Company. The purpose of the NM&TC was to haul supplies to the mine, haul the ore out and ferry the miners to work and back. "


"The N-Scale Nantahala Mining & Transportation Co. is a very short line (the shorter the R.R. the longer the name   ) in southern Appalacia.
It was built to ferry miners and supplies from the town of Allison N.C. to the NM&T gold mine 7 miles up in the mountains. The terrain is so rugged that roads for vechicles will never be built so miners have to use the R.R. to get to and from work. The R.R. is also the only way to get supplies in and the ore out. At the town of Allison the NM&TCo. interchanges with it's parent R.R. the Nantahala Midland which in turn interchanges with the L&N and the Southern at Tellico Gap N.C

[mart]

Thats the same as I posted above Sapphire !! I think coal burner used on the train !!

[sapphire]

Thats the same as I posted above Sapphire !! I think coal burner used on the train !!

duh!    Brain isn't working quite like it should. Still foggy from too many meds. 

[Rauville]

I think we are talking about two different companies here. I can't imagine that a North Carolina mining company would be manufacturing stoves in Buffalo, New York.

(I seem to recall some metal fabricating machinery years ago that went under the trade name: "Niagara", made by the Niagara Machine and Tool Company. Who knows, maybe they made stoves as a sideline?) 

[Jsteger08]

Thank you everyone!!! That sheds a lot more light on it!! It's been up here in kenai, Alaska for about 40 years, the guy I bought it from used it for his small cabin and outhouse. If there is any additional info please let me know! Thank you everyone so much for your answers!!!

[sapphire]

Rauville I think you hit it bang on!! Thank heaven someone's head is working overtime. 


Found their catalogue No. 56 (no idea of year) here:  http://www.thesheetmetalshop.com/library/    (bottom of page)

http://www.thesheetmetalshop.com/pdf_manual/niagara_machine_and_tool_works_3.pdf

Looks like it's their Base-burning tinner's fire pot 

[mart]

I didn`t see that one !!  Maybe I have been in the sun too much !!

[sapphire]

http://shopngarage.com/2010/12/a-tinners-shop/