Victorian Cooking Stove (Primus Original)
This Victorian-era Primus original (cooking stove) is designed to burn wood, coal, or both. Manufacturers generally sold regionally, so the brands are not as important from a collecting standpoint. It is in its original box with the orignial instructions. It has some rust on due to the age, but apart from that is in good condition. The equipment inside is engraved with 'Sweden' (see history below).
<p>This Victorian-era Primus original (cooking stove) is designed to burn wood, coal, or both. Manufacturers generally sold regionally, so the brands are not as important from a collecting standpoint. It is in its original box with the orignial instructions. It has some rust on due to the age, but apart from that is in good condition. The equipment inside is engraved with 'Sweden' (see history below).</p> <p>The Primus stove, the first pressurised-burner kerosene (paraffin) stove, was developed in 1892 by Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist a factory mechanic in Stockholm, Sweden. The stove was based on the design of the hand-held blowtorch; Lindqvist&rsquo;s patent covered the burner, which was turned upward on the stove instead of outward as on the blowtorch. The same year, Lindqvist partnered with Johan Viktor Svenson to establish J.V. Svenson&rsquo;s Kerosene Stove Factory to manufacture the new stoves, which were sold under the name Primus.</p> <p>The efficient Primus stove quickly earned a reputation as a reliable and durable stove in everyday use, and it performed especially well under adverse conditions: it was the stove of choice for Roald Amundsen's expedition to the South Pole and Richard Byrd's to the North Pole.</p>