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Hello All,
I picked up a small smoker from an antique shop in Texas. The smoker is
unlike those I have seen before. I believe the smoker dates to 1903. 1903
was a year of change in the smoker industry. Root added the junior smoker to
its line. The root junior can be easily spotted because of the top not
having a hinge, small size and the Root trademark snout.
The little smoker I found is not a ROOT junior smoker but is very similar.
The snout is like the 1903 (Woodman) Bingham. Yet the top does not have a
hinge ( like the same year Root junior).
Beekeeping smoker history from 1903:
In 1903 the direct draft smoker was maunfactured by the Woodman company
UNDER the Bingham patent. Its easy to see the 1903 Woodman/Bingham does not
look like the earlier Bingham smokers. The 1903 Woodman model had a top
which could direct smoke on the hive in an upright position . Once the
difference is shown to the novice the two smokers are easy to tell apart. At
least for me until this little fellow happened along.
The little smoker I have got looks exactly like the woodman bingham except
for two details which are no hinge on the top and the upper bellows mount is
upside down . Both look factory to me and others which have looked at the
smoker.
The diminsions for the unknown smoker are three inch for the stove (the
stove size was two and a half for the Root 1903 junior by comparison). The
bellows diminsions for the unknown smoker are four in. by five inches. The
height of the stove is five and a half inches.
does the list know if Woodman made a junior smoker?
My 1903 Woodman Bingham smoker I own has a four inch stove and the stove is
seven inch tall. The bellows is five inch wide and eight inch tall. hinged
top with correct bellows mounts.
I have just returned from a trip. Thought I would ask as quicker than
calling Paul Jackson or Wyatt M.
Did Bingham/Woodman make a junior smoker? If so when? Root made an improved
junior in 1926 which had a three and a quarter inch stove and five inch high
but had the Root snout still and the top hinge was correct.
I am trying to figure out who had the junior first. Root or Woodman. Using
an idea with a slight change was common with the early masters.
Thanks in advance.
bob
bob
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