Just what IS an "Oak" stove?

Like the title says, just what IS an "Oak" stove? I've seen pictures of many, "Round Oak", "Modern Oak", "Glenwood Oak", "Royal Oak", etc. Is it a particular style or construction? They all seem to be cylinder stoves.

Understood, it's the widespread use of the "Oak" name that made me wonder if it refers to a particular style of stove... lots of stoves with "Oak" in the name but no "Hickory" or "Maple"...

JMHO but hickory and maple don't roll off the tongue as easy as oak, nor do I think it sounds as majestic/regal. If I were marketing a stove back in that era I would also have chosen "oak" over those other names. good luck

I always assumed it was someone coping someone else's good selling design. I have a Round Oak stove. Very good stove.
here is some history on them... Beckwith designed the orginal Round Oak design. Some of the parts looked like they had oak bark on them also..for decoration

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_D._Beckwith

Oak, "the King's wood". My assumption is that oak in the name equals top of product line.

I'm running a Webster Oak. It's from the Webster Stove Company, out of St. Louis, circa 1983. The more I use it, the more I like it. There is very little info out there about it.

Did you mean circa 1893? I see those pop up on CL from time to time

No, 1983. It's actually pretty high tech. It uses the same Cat as the Dutchwest stoves, and has a large secondary air tube that travels through the firebox before it's injected just under the cat. The company made high end, old looking stoves. They were short lived because of price i believe.

That's pretty cool !

Thanks. I got it for free, minus the paint and the new cat. It was replaced with a Blaze King Princess because the bypass wasn't working properly and the flue was clogged.