Here is a very late production 2-pint external-NRV Svea No.14. Nice clean condition and apparently relatively little used. The features that set it aside from other Svea No.14s previously posted are the tank legends and burner. The only post-'bubble' font external-NRV Sveas posted hitherto have been examples of the silent No.15 and roarer No.16. Those two continued in production all through the 1920s and 1940s, but the only evidence that any other external-NRV Sveas continued to be produced towards the mid-1920s has been one 1924 Svea catalogue (here). That catalogue suggested that as many as 6 other external-NRV models remained available until at least that date, but this is the first example of any one of them to surface to place in this reference gallery. The key dating feature on this stove is the sharper, more angular font used for the main tank legends: This was the font adopted across the whole Svea range in the early 1920s to replace the pre-WW1 'bubble' font. Other features remained largely unchanged: This was probably the time when the Svea-branded cast iron trivet was introduced to supercede generic types: The old-form simple tank/riser joint visible in the photos above is also indicative of an early 1920s date. We know that, later in the 1920s, the No.15 & 16 models did benefit from a stronger, beefed-up revision of the tank/riser joint. Later still those models also benefitted from re-tooling to incorporate sunken filler cap bosses and even the 'King of Stoves' re-branding; there is no evidence that the No.14 lasted long enough in production to be considered for any of those upgrades. @Nicola Francesco Elia
