While hitting several sales today I stumbled across this for a good price. From what I can figure its missing the strap, pricker and a pot lifter. The rest seems to be there. Its used but in great shape. The 123 is the earlier style with the slanted valve. i am not expert on these stove but do enjoy my 123s. Very simple and I look forward to trying out the kit.
Smart buy, older the better in my book. The kit works well with alcohol stoves too. Always said they are bulky, that is crazy talk. If I assembled the same number of pans, I would have way more bulk. What I don't like is high heat, eggs and thin pan. Enjoy the scrubbing, oops, I mean cooking with new kit. Daryl SoCal
Howdy, @FishNChips , Welcome to CCS! Outstanding find on your Sigg, SVEA123 kit! I love the actual Sievert 123s the best, though the later versions are very good, too. I'm sure you can find a pricker, pot gripper, and strap, and if the strap does not come to hand, you can easily craft one that would work just as well as the original. In what part of California do you live? We do have what I call a CASG (California Stove Gathering) now and then, and you would be welcome to join us to camp, cook, work on stoves, and enjoy each other's company, at some future event. @Daryl , as to using an alcohol stove in a Sigg Tourist kit, I'd like to see photos of that, too. Is it possible to share a few here, please? To me, and to many others who own and use them, the Sigg Tourist kit, and the SVEA 123, in all it's variations, is just about the perfect cook set/stove combination around! Trangia stoves are right in there, too. Sweet Bride and I used to carry a Sigg/SVEA kit on tons of camping and backpacking trips. We also used a Sigg Tourist/Coleman 550B combo, burning kerosene, for most of our first 850 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, and it worked wonderfully! This was AFTER we gave up on our Optimus 00 (my fault, and not the stove's!), MSR X-GK (I wasn't hip enough about simmering with that stove, back then), and MSR Whisperlite Internationale V1 (which was NOT a true Multifuel stove, even though MSR advertised it as one!)! We had NO problems with the Sigg/Coleman 550B kit! FishNChips, hope to see you at a future CASG, if you have a mind to join in the fun! Thanks for sharing your excellent find, and enjoy using it! Oh, you might want to change out the fuel cap gasket, and SRV pip, with new Nitrile, or Viton rubber replacements, just for safety's sake. That's always a good idea, Take care, and God Bless! Every Good Wish, Doc
@Doc Mark Here you are folks, just need the windscreen part for alcohol stove. Can use other pans too. If you placed a grate across could hold kettle or small cups. FYI Picture looking north from my place across San Bernardino valley to where Doc lives in the San Bernardino Mountains. Steve R. lives about 14mi south-east of me here in inland SoCal. Between LA and Palm Springs on the map.
Thanks all! I am pretty new to the euro style stoves but am a big Coleman collector, mainly going after pre WW2 Colemans or unusual items. I have a 123R I keep in the truck and a few more modern backpacking stoves. I like the kit and can not wait to try it out. I doubt I will be doing any frying in the aluminum but it will be perfect for boiling/simmering. I live up by Redding Ca. I plan to go through the stove soon and replace/check parts. I love the simplicity of the SVEA stoves. Not much to go wrong. Hikerduane lives not far from me and always has some beautiful little brass stoves to show off at the Coleman campouts.
Thanks. That is cool. I would not have tried it that way. So, glad you said so. @FishNChips Just to let you know. The stove you found is not just any Svea stove. A Sievert Svea from before the 1969 purchase of the company by Optimus. The stamping of the parts are a unique difference. As well as the quality of the stove. If you research more you will find out how FN lucky of a find that it is. Treat it well.
I urge reconsideration. We have fried countless steaks on the Sigg/Svea: Examples could be multiplied indefinitely. As for eggs, I'll report later...
I agree with Ed. It is called a frypan as well as a lid. The stacking pots can heat a soup/stew in the bottom pan, and bake biscuits/bannock in the top with the frypan as an inverted lid.
We have fried eggs for breakfast on the Sigg/Svea many dozens of times. Our method is with plenty of olive oil; thus eggs a la Red-Headed Mary, a procedure taught us by @spudz many years ago. There is no scrubbing or scraping problem: As with the steaks, I could post many examples, but this one pretty much covers it. I should note also that when we fry on the Optimus 00 or other 1-pint keroburners, we use the Sigg fry pan, as we use the other Sigg pots likewise.
Ok you guys have me considering steaks and eggs. Great pictures! I love any type of vintage camp gear, especially in the setting it was made for. i will look up more on the stove, I just assumed it was another “common” SVEA 123. Thanks for the help and love the pictures of the cook-set in use! It makes me excited to try it. I have Collin Fletchers books on his backpacking trips, I know he rated this system very high.
