I suspect that this stove was introduced immediately after WW2 to fill the demand for 1/2 pint stoves caused by the ban on the import of foreign stoves. The burner plate was marked DUO-BURN so was specific to that brand name even though the stove appears to be double for the Veritas stoves RELATED TOPICS DUO-BURN DUO-BURN 1 VERITAS VERITAS 2 Regards Bryan