This stove shares an identical unmarked tank to the FSCo 'Virtus' here. It has the same lamp-type stove base with the same sort of incuse number stampng: and also the same unique form of lighting assist tube: As such it poses all the same questions as the 'Virtus', namely was this made under license from the German firm of Ehrich & Graetz, using machine tools acquired from them, or made for FSCo actualy by Ehrich & Graetz? What is different from the FSCo. 'Virtus' are the burner and the trivet. The cast iron trivet says only 'Veritas Lamp Works', no mention of 'Virtus Stove'. The burner is also different in being a true silent burner. At first sight this appears to be the same as that fitted to later Ehrich & Graetz 'Graezea' stoves, eg here. Comparing only the 2 stove bodies, however, reveals that the body on this stove has shorter, squat, proportions, the main U-tube is significantly taller on the linked Graezea stove. Possibly the explanation is that this stove is fitted with the 47/4 silent burner which appears in Ehrich & Graetz's 1931 parts selection, as opposed to the 54/4 type: Both these burners in 1931 were sharing the same silent cap (54/2) and the same full 'U' outer tube construction. To restore the stove to use I have used a Primus No.4 cap which has the same proportions as the E&G 54/2 cap: So too many questions are left unanswered. Was this E&G burner a later substitution? or original? in which case was this sold as one of FSCo's elusive 'Farringdon' silent burners? or is the explanation something different altogether?
