Wow that really is one very old Primus! Everything looks original except the burner. I wouldn't be messing with the pump unless the NRV proves not...
Well I got that wrong! A recent new find tells a very different story. This is an identical large folding candle lantern dating back to just after...
Superb provenance, very much the way we were in some rural areas then. No gas outside the big towns, and electricity often lacking too. Things...
Agree the very old one probably c.1895. The Optimus much more recent, but, being Optimus, won't have any date mark. The other Primuses without...
The 'Patent' 2pint with the long pan support tops to the legs and hex detachable pump tube looks to be quite old c.1895. Worth adding a close up...
[ATTACH] 'Not another one!' - yes another one. Britain must have had a rather large consignment of Primus No.6s in 1935, this is the 4th one I've...
Contact interface between steel and aluminium is bad news - it doesn't take much salt contamination at all to set up destructive electrolitic...
Recent conversation with a new but already esteemed CCS member reminded me that I has failed to add update photos for this stove after I had been...
I hope you keep the steel trivet. I really like that type, far better than the ubiquitous pressed steel sort. Very forgiving in use in various...
Thanks Nicola, I had failed to note that. So now I've had this stove of mine outside in the sun, checked round the burner hex, one side looked...
That would seem plausible, and that would be early in the Sievert Svea era. Also I notice that none of the known Willander Sveas seem to have had...
Update, I do now have a question about whether the tube burner on this stove is original to when the stove was first sold. The question relates to...
[ATTACH] Talking about a long wait for a bus then 2 come along together, well barely have I posted this Willander Svea No.1 than here comes along...
I've always felt that those fixed feet were far more in keeping with the 221, and that the later fold-out type were a retrograde step, far less...
@gumby76 definitely very old. The filler cap suggests pre-1899, and with the round provenance mark on the tank bottom most likely c.1898. A good...
Hi, the wick should be cotton and the fuel for this type of burner was usually meths. A nice inheritance:thumbup:
Probably benefit from the intense drying heat they are so regularly subjected to I guess.
It is indeed steel! Same oddly large size as found on so many Burmos 21s but normally brass. Intended as another economy measure?
And out again, this time in the porch of the one man Hilleberg Akto near Kildale, North Yorkshire: [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] Coffee brew duty this afternoon:content:
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