Objects Database

Svea 121 - King of Stoves - Paraffin Stove

Accession Number

1546.2020.1

Object Name

Svea 121 - King of Stoves - Paraffin Stove

Created

07/07/2020

Creator

Hermione Cooper

Accession Date

07/07/2020

Brief Description

Svea 121 - King of Stoves - Paraffin Stove

Materials

metal

Dimensions

13(diameter) cms

Number Of Objects

10

Inscription Description

"SVEA THE KING OF STOVES NO 121 MADE IN SWEDEN"

Colour

gold

Maker

Svea

Object Production Place

Sweden

Provenance

Svea were one of several Swedish companies that followed, hot on the heels of, Primus, who invented the first pressurised paraffin stove in 1892. Founded by Carl Nyberg, the company was later taken over by Max Sievert, though the brand name Svea remained. Yet another takeover in 1969 saw the brand acquired by Optimus and no doubt the saga will continue.
Unlike Primus, Svea don’t have a date code stamped on them and the various takeovers have resulted in some stoves having a mixture of Svea, Sievert and Optimus, sometimes Primus, parts.
An excellent website called Classic Camp Stoves and another called base-camp will help if you need more info.
We reckon the Svea 121, King of Stoves, we have here in the collection is a fairly late version from around the 1960’s. We rescued it from our paraffin stove graveyard, cleaned it, put a Primus burner on top, found a few accessories and put them all in an old Primus/ Optimus tin to make a nice, hybrid addition to our collection.

Acquisition Date

07/07/2020

Condition Check Date

07/07/2020

Rules

Spectrum : UK Museum documentation standard, V.3.1 2007

Modified

07/07/2020

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