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After the American Civil War, Avery put out a large line of products, including steam engines beginning in 1891. The company started with a return flue style, and later went into the under-mount style replete with pugnacious bulldog on the smokebox door. They experienced immediate success with farmers in central Illinois and their market grew nation-wide and overseas until their failure to innovate brought them down in the 1920s.