Not sure if this is the correct forum for this or not. But I would like help from anyone to identify this stove that my grandfather gave to me.
That's a rarity! It's called "Luxspiseln no.1", and was seen atleast in catalogues and instructions from 1902. I have a catalogue with this one posted in the reference gallery, but you need to be a subscriber to see it. Below I'll attach the part about this range from a general article about Lux in "Teknisk Tidskrift" from 1902. Do you have the burner with it? This part, if you pull out the lower left drawer:
That is indeed a beautiful unit. Does the burner on the left run on kerosene? I would have guessed the stove was a wood burner. My parents used to have a mountain cabin in the White Mountains of Arizona, close to the Whiteriver Apache Reservation. As a student, I would go up there on XMAS Break and ski at the nearby Apache Sunrise resort. At one time we acquired a Ben Franklin stove. It was quite fancy with chromed trim fenders around the rectangular black cast iron firebox. We fed it Juniper wood, which has a cedar-like scent. It had an ornate pagoda-looking chrome superstructure`, which I discovered swung out 90* exposing a pair of circular iron plates which could be lifted up if one wanted to put a cast iron cooking pot of the right diameter in the hole. Mostly, I learned to fry steaks on a griddle on the top, using the right combination of wood pieces. In the event of a snowstorm, we would cook pea soup on the rangetop and tune in Wagner on the FM from Northern AZ University in Flagstaff. Desert dwellers develope a mild obsession with snow and winter. If it gets boring, we can always go back to the Valley. Good times. I miss it. We sold that place in the mid-Ninties.
