Here's a few pics of a small petrol stove I got a while ago, but took a bit of time to get working. Brand/type is 'Favorit Sportkocher' (which in German more or less equals camping stove), but that is about all I know about it. Ross Mellows once told me he should have one somewhere as well, but there the trail ends thus far. Technically the stove seems inspired by the Phoebus 725 (or the other way round?), though built much lighter, but with comparable performance: really only two tastes (full blast and off), noise like a jetplane, and that small tank is empty again before you know it. The stove came with its tin with very attractive graphics, a rather special windscreen-arrangement, and a green plastic half-moonish thingy (see last pic), which I suppose was meant to keep parts together. Hoping you'll all enjoy this, Jur
this also has a strange blend of era's ..a 1930's stove in a 1950's cookie tin with 1940's graphics and a 1960's looking stainless steel,hand spot welded windshield.. given the age could this be from the former East Germany??..
As can be seen in one of the folowing pics, the windscreen is held by two of the panholders, fitting very closely in two sleeves. The arrangement as such seems original - judging from the brand-sign on the tin - but I suspect the stainless steel windscreen having been made later (though very expertly) to replace the original one (because that was lost or rotted away, whatever). Once again judging from the tin's graphics, I guess after all that tin and stove are early post-WWII Austrian: notice the mountaineering and skiing (never really an East-German thing), the clearly post WWII scooter and car, and once again the similarity to the Phoebus 725, which certainly in those times and regions could hardly be coincidental.
As usual, it took me a bit to put 1 + 1 together, and check the graphics on my old style (that is square, yellow and green) Phoebus 725 and 625 tins. They're at my office, so pics aren't immediately available (nor could I find any good examples on CCS or internet right now), but please take it from me that they're so very similar in topics and style to those on that Favorit's tin, that they most likely have been drawn by the same artist!
