Grandma Bear

When did they start making Grandma Bear stoves with the glass in the doors? And where can I find the gasket that goes in them?

Also there are some #'s and letters on the bottom of the stove what do they mean?

If you can read the initials or name please post it. Some welders are still around in town and I MAY be able to tell you who he was, actually we had one female welder too. It could have been me. I hope not most welded better than me. lol I am assuming since you are from GA that it was purchased in Ga. Only thing I could add to Coaly and his dates. I have drawings showing issue dates but it does not say that it is when they started making them. We could have set on a set of drawings until the spring time to start making them in the summer for the next year. I do no know if Fisher demanded a start date or not.

there are probably 2 names. one under the ash fender and one under the box itself. There one under the ash fender hung the doors and vented it and added the serial #. The name under the box is the original welder of the box itself. Our shop made stoves all summer and stored them until orders were taken for them, then the doors and vent were installed.
One year a tractor factory was slow and they had their welders build boxes and sold them to us. That would be the only time I know of the boxes were not built in our factory and sold in the South east. The best way to tell them is were the vent came out of the stove it was welded on the back of the stove or top before putting the box together and the weld around the vent pipe was inside of the stove. I bet Coaly did not know that one Who knows he probably does. I can not remember the name of the tractor company.

Also the air control knobs are on the side and not on the doors... There is two slide air control dampers under the doors on the front.

Is the top of the glass flat then going to the angle down? If so it is a grandma III. If the top of the glass angles up before it angles back down it is a Grandma IV as we called them.

Here is a picture of my stove,I am not sure if it is a III or IV..

picture did not come through....try again

It want let me put the pic on here. It keeps giving me an error code..

Cool... You have one for me and I will have one for you.....

Here it is... I am in the process of putting it in my home..

I am not sure if it is a III or IV. I am going to try to get the numbers and letters off the bottom before I put it in.

There is what looks like a baffle in the back underneath where the stve pipe hooks too.

I will take a picture tomorrow when I have plenty of light and I will post it.

The doors on that stove are a Gma III, It is the first of the glass door Gmas. They are flat on the top and angle down, the glass that is. I do not have saved pictures of different stoves to show you a Grandma IV but it is a III.

Ok.. Thank you for the info.

Here is the inside of the fire box,it looks like a damper in the top of it..

I got some # and letters off of the bottom, These were on the ash pan B9790 MC, these were on the box YH ONTV, I am not really sure about those as they were hard to read,I am going to try again when I can get some soap stone or chalk that I can rub over it to bring it out better...Yes I did buy it here in Ga. I live in Plainville just outside of Calhoun..

The numbers are the serial number for that stove and I think Mike McCoy may have been the one who hung the doors and vented it, I will ask him next week I will see him. As far as the other initials i do not know. I will have to ask him too.

Thats great to know..

I got my stove in and it is working great... Does anyone know where I can find a owners manual for a Moma bear stove? My dad has one and wanted to see if I could find one for it..