A friend of mine has sent me these pictures of his new stove, but I can't identify it. The date code is AE 1940. Closest I can find is this Baltimore Clipper but it's not the same. Anyone got any ideas, or am I just not looking hard enough?
@Matthew92 That's a very interesting stove. The speckled enamel reminds me very much of Australian stoves, like Aladdin, that came with that style of enamelling. Cheers Tony
Yes looks like the Australian Allidin except the trivits are non detachable and it has a Primus type date marker. Nice stove in good condition. Cheers Rob
Hi Matthew First of all, the positioning of the control knobs is not original. They would normally point straight forward, but they can be placed in any position to suit the user. When looking for the exact stove, the problem I had in identification is the very straight legs and the plain top plate. If the legs had a bit of a curve at the bottom then it is identical to a Primus 523. Maybe yours is a later (cheaper to produce) one similar to the early 1950s one here.
My first impression was that the enamel reminded me of the Aladdin stoves I've seen. I also thought of the 523, as that is what I've got here with what appears to be an identical tank in the middle, but nothing quite fitted. This is earlier than the one in that advert Trevor, looking in the gallery, there's
Hi Matthew I only posted that image of a 523 from the 1950s because it was the clearest image in the archives. It is not much different to an image from 1937. However, your stove does not appear in the catalogues, etc. on CCS. Tony might have pointed us in the correct direction. Australia produced many types of stove using Swedish stove parts. These often had parts made by Svea, but Primus parts were also used and this stove could be one of them.
@Matthew92 & @shagratork An example of an Australian-made Coleman with Optimus and Svea parts is here: https://classiccampstoves.com/threads/coleman-twin-burner-kerosene-made-in-australia.30854/ I'm not saying that Matthew's stove is either Australian-made, or a frankie, but a lot of odd stoves appeared here in the 1950s. Does the stove look like the tank and burner are "retrofitted"? Tony
Im sure Ive seen this stove before and it is Australian. Could be Companion or Aladin. Also think it came in a metal box
@geeves You're not thinking of this type of Aladdin are you? https://classiccampstoves.com/threads/aladdin-double-burner-boxed-camp-stove.31273/ Cheers Tony
Thanks for all the input, it would be interesting to know more about the 'Baltimore Clipper' that I mentioned in my first post, as I'm sure there is a connection between the two. Does anyone know which country Joe Snow is from? I assume USA, as that was mentioned in the original post.
Hi @taku thank you for that link, that looks promising to me. I wonder as your stove and the book are from the year before this stove was produced, perhaps in 1940 this was broadening the range of stoves produced by the Baltimore Enamel and Novelty company.
