The No.210 Supreme hot blast is an interesting puzzle. Your 210 is identical to the 1917 Supreme catalog. The 1915 catalog shows it as the No.0 Windsor, item No.210 in the catalog wherein it has a simple cam lift and chisel point tee. In between these catalogs (1916) it acquires the armoured camlox lift and the beaded diagonal cut tee and appears as the No.210 Windsor, The No.0 Supreme and the No.10 Supreme. For now, I can't really refine any from the past reports of 1916-1947 for this model, other than this indication that it was more likely made first in 1917. When I can gather a flock of these together and figure-out the next detail break, there may be some date refinements. The Embury hot blasts are proving tougher to date than the cold blasts. Speaking of which: I also noticed the No.240 and other c.b.'s have socket flanges in the 1917 catalog, along with the simple camlox lift and rising cone burner. That means your 240 is more likely 1920-1929, best guesstimate. It's interesting that both Dietz and Embury were big on the superior rising cone burners in the teen years but reverted to the previous locking cone burners during the 1920's.
My planned Embury studies have been sidetracked lately because of the abundance of Blizzard versions that have been surfacing in the past 3 months. I'm up to 18 versions identified so far. BB
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