Courtesy of Ebayer grandmashaven25 This old Primus was bought in Lithuania. The tank is stamped with a panel of what is possibly Lithuanian text. This surely must have been done in the factory? I reckon doing it after the stove was assembled would damage the tank. This is the first Primus tank I've seen with such custom factory stamping. The spirit cup has slipped down a little on this example.
Hi there Archivist. The stamp is in Russian, cyrillic letters. Russian was the "ordered language" in Lithuania until the communist regime fell, and the satellite states were freed. It says: The first line "Guessing": AKTIEBOLAGET (dont know what You call a shareholders company in that language) Second line: B. A. HJORT No: Third line: STOCKHOLM In Lithuanian it would have been latin letters, something like : KOMPANIJA B. A. HJORT STOKHOLMAS Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania all have their own languages. Similar to each other, but with some differencies I found this translation in an "online translator" Best regards Uffe
For clarification, the Cyrillic panel is in pre-1917 Russian, and reads "АКЦІОНЕРНОЕ ОБЩЕСТВО Б.А.ХІОРТЪ N Ко. СТОКГОЛБМЪ". This translates as "Joint Stock Company B.A.HJORTH & Co. Stockholm", and was a standard marking on Primus stoves produced for sale in Russia in the years leading up to WW1. The 'Joint Stock Company' legal structure had been adopted in 1898. The 'AKT.BOL' marking on the filler cap is a Swedish abbreviation of the same company designation. Lithuania, as well as Estonia and Latvia, was part of the old Russian Empire throughout this period.
