A remarkably well preserved Svea No.16 from the years just immediately after WW1. The ancillary parts, burner, tube caps and filler caps, NRV access nut and pressure relief screw are all crisp, unmarked and showing no signs of wear. It has certainly been used, but very little. This is unusual for a light build budget model domestic stove. These stoves more often had hard lives and suffered accordingly. Just post-WW1 and still with the original 'bubble font' tank top name, Cyrillic side panel, original burner and cast iron trivet. The additional side panel and newer pump tube cap markings help distinguish this from pre-war examples. The pump cup assembly is notable for all of the components, the carrier body, and both front and back retaining nuts all being round with no provision for tool application! This is very much a signature feature of certain periods of Svea stove production. Unfortunately most of the natural patina and surface corrosion from long term, possibly damp, storage had all been rather unsympathetically removed by a previous owner prior to selling.
Functionally it is absolutely fine, flawless. But right now I'm short of paraffin after burning through more than two gallons in two hours yesterday. How? Using a 1950s Macallan flameweeder in starting to tackle a huge and very serious patch of well established Japanese Knotweed! Currently about 2/3rds into phase 1 of beginning to smash that (With probably another 2-3 years work now ahead).
Mine have two types of fuel caps, wonder which is older? Of course the one cap may be off another stove a PO swapped on, it has a SRV with raised lettering. Duane
@hikerduane the fuel cap above is the earliest, in combination with early font style. Number 16 lasted till middle-late 1930s… models 15 and 16 were the last two featuring the old style external NRV. Nicola
@hikerduane there was another design of filler cap, shared as standard with other Svea stoves in the 1930s. But I have never seen any external NRV Svea stove equipped with an SRV-type cap. The big Cyrillic tank side panel is only found on tanks with 'bubble font' tank top inscriptions, but not even on all of those.
@igh371 models 25 and 26 both had external NRV and filler cap with SRV, probably because both were also used as heaters. Nicola
Additionally the earlier design of filler cap, as on this 16, lasted on 2 pint stoves till early/middle 1930s, when the font was already updated. Nicola
