Sweden stove
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A/B B.A. Hjorth & Co.,
Stockholm, Sweden,
made this Model 6 stove
with a silent burner.
This stove, in Jeff Johnson's
collection,
is shown with an optional
Primus toaster.
The stove is date stamped
W = 1932.

The tank on this Model 41SP Primus brand tripod stove
is date stamped AU, the year code for 1955.
The pump handle is visible on the end of the tank.
The grate is hinged on the right so that the tank, burner,
windscreen on the right, and detachable handle
will all fold/nest into the metal container.

This Model 54 Primus brand
tripod stove (left),
in Bo Ryman's collection,
is date stamped AD = 1939.
The flame guard has a pour
spout for filling the alcohol cup.
The tank cap is held by
a chain when not in use for packing the stove with fuel.
This stove also came with
the parts to convert it to Model 157R heater (right)
with a suspended heating
cone & reflector.
This Model 71E Primus brand
stove was made in 1948.
Older Primus products are
stamped on the bottom
with a letter code for
the year, in this case, AM.
This stove, which burns
white gas, is in Jorgen Svensson's collection.


Primus brand stoves, Model
85 (left) dated AA = 1936,
and Model 701 (right) dated
AD = 1939.
These stoves have larger
founts for industrial use but lack the optional cooking stands.
The stove on the left is
in Jeff Johnson's collection.
The flame spreader
on the 701 stove is a replacement.
Model 96 Primus stoves
- 1923 (left) and 1937 (right).
The burner on this collapsible
stove fits on the conical fuel riser tube
as does the alcohol preheater
cup.
The boxes for the stoves
are 14.5 x 12.5 x 7.5cm.
Note the simpler four-sided
preheater windscreen
and non-folding leg bases
on the 1923 version of this stove.
The stove on the right
is in Wade Hicks' collection.
Model 523 Primus stove
is a two silent burner model
that has interesting valve
wheels
that are articulated and
fastened to the front legs.
This kerosene stove, in
Mike Baker's collection,
is dated 1932.
A more recent two silent
burner kerosene stove,
this Primus 535 is not
date stamped but probably dates to the 1960's
when a lot of this popular
model were made (Bo Ryman).
This stove, in Bob Meyer's
collection, is also marked A/B Bahco.
This is a very early tripod
stove dating to 1881.
It was developed by C.R.Nyberg
who later cooperated with Max Sievert who sold his products.
Sievert bought the Nyberg
plant and products were then sold as Sievert.
This stove is model GK
in the 1915 Sievert catalog.
This pumpless model, in
Bo Ryman's collection, runs on gasoline.


Aktiebolaget Optimus, Stockholm,
Sweden,
made this Optimus brand
No 1 stove circa 1915, according to Bo Ryman.
The pump has an access
port to the check valve on the other side of the tank from the handle,
the legs have a ring of
metal to hold them in the brackets at the right height,
the feet are rounded brass,
& the burner has wings at the base for hand tightening.
Optimus also made this
Model 22B stove
in a two-burner version
of the well known tripod stove.
This stove has roarer burners,
so-called for the noise
they make when running, as seen here.
This model runs on white
gas/Coleman fuel.
The tank is moved forward,
which slides the burners under the two grates.

This Optimus Model 181 has a 2 pint tank
and a fuel level gauge just to the right of the filler cap on the top of the tank.
Bo Ryman estimates this stove, which is in Pablo Vega's collection,
was made in the late 1940's to early 50's,
based on the plating and white plastic valve wheel.
Ross Mellows identified
this Optimus stove as Model 184,
a marine stove model perhaps
made in the 1950's
and the equivalent of non-marine
Model 182.
The stove has two silent
burners, each with its own brass tank.
This stove is in John Bell's
collection.
Optimus stove Model 00 is marked Model 00L on the tin.
This stove came with a wrench and alcohol can.
The date on the instruction sheet with the stove is 1960.
The tank capacity is 1 pint;
Optimus rated the stove to boil 1 quart of water in 4 minutes.
This stove set is in Ralph Trask's collection.
Optimus International AB
is the manufacturer's name
on this Optimus Ranger
10 stove.
The tank and metal box
are black painted steel;
only the fuel filler cap
and some of the burner parts are brass.
The aluminum pump fits
over the filler cap to pressurize the fount.

Aktiebolaget Pyro, Stockholm,
Sweden, made this tripod stove around 1912-15.
It is unusual in that it
has a built-in pump (right) that removes for fuel filling
and the knob allows air
to be drawn from the top of the tank
to force the preheater
flame up to light the fuel.
Aktiebolaget Pyro started
production in 1900
but was not in business
for many years.

Aktiebolaget Radius, Stockholm, Sweden, made this alcohol fueled stove Model 340.
This unfired stove, in Ruedi Fischer's collection, has a Barthel burner.
Alcohol in the closed central tube is initially heated by alcohol in the preheater cup
then by the fuel in the adjacent burner tube.
The heat of operation pressurizes the fount.
This is an older, kerosene
burning tripod stove, Model 4,
made by Sievert of Sweden
under the SVEA brand.
Note the access to the pump check valve
to the left of the leg closest to the front of the image.
This silent burner model has a brass projection on the left side of the preheater cup
to direct the flame up to light the burner.

This unfired SVEA stove Model 158 has 1954 printer's date codes on the papers.
The stove includes a green painted steel carry case from which it can be slid out,
instructions in Swedish on the inside of the lid
along with an alcohol preheater container,
and a guarantee tag on the burner.
The stove weighs over 4.5 kg (10 pounds).
Svea made this Komfur Model
60 stove
with a silent burner.
This stove has not been
used
and is in Bo Ryman's collection.
Max Sievert also marketed
stoves under the Campus brand.
This Model 3 Campus stove,
in Jorgen Svensson's collection,
is similar to the SVEA
123 Model.
This stove burns white
gas and probably dates to the 1930's.

The paperwork with this SVEA 121L is dated Aug. 1958.
This small tank model is one of many that came in a carrying tin
and had a plug (right on top of the tank) to seal the tank
during transportation.
This stove is in Tim Treutler's collection.
This early Assurans tripod
stove was made by the Assuransköksbolaget, Stockholm, Sweden;
the stove was patented
in the late 1870's by the inventor Forsberg.
The stove, like the early Nyberg
stove, lacks a pump and has a spherical tank.
What appears to be a pump
on this stove is the pressure release screw.
Note the preheater cup
swings away and the burner can be tipped back for cleaning.
This stove is in Magnus
Thilander's collection.