Primus Brass Stove - Babour

PRIMUS BRASS STOVE A/B - (Babour) in Arabic - Vintage Item

Made by; B.A. Hjorth, Sweden - c.1900-1950
Never used. Fully functional. Brand New, Original and Rare Vintage Item; numbered 100. Not just a purchase, it’s an investment acquisition.

Primus, as named by Egypt's European community, or 'Babour' by the locals, was an indispensable item used daily domestically and commercially. Back then in those days, electric or gas stoves were an expensive luxury and most households didn’t have electricity or gas connections, hence no hot water either, so most households, restaurants and coffee shops relied on the Primus stove for their daily needs and cooking.

I can vividly recall the days for example when we had to bath, we used to fill a large drum style aluminium container with cold water and place it onto the Primus until the water boiled, then sitting in a (tesht) ‘aluminium small version’ of a bathtub, or otherwise sitting on a wooden stool, we used a bath water ladle-dipper to scoop some boiling water which we mixed with cold tap water and pour it over ourselves for our daily bath... tedious, but what memories! The Primus or Babour is still in operation and used by numerous households around Egypt to this very day, predominantly in villages.

• Material: Old World Brass
• Original and Brand New, numbered: 100
• Height: 20cm
• Diameter: Base 18cm - Top ring 21cm diameter

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History: the Primus stove, the first pressurized-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’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’s Kerosene Stove Factory, to manufacture the new stoves which were sold under the name Primus. The first model was the No.1 stove, which was quickly followed by a number of similarly-designed stoves of different models and sizes. Shortly thereafter, B.A. Hjorth & Co. (later Bahco) a tool and engineering firm begun in Stockholm in 1889, acquired the exclusive rights to sell the Primus stove.

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 Fridtjof Nansen's North Pole attempt, Roald Amundsen’s expedition to the South Pole and Richard Byrd’s to the North Pole. Primus stoves also accompanied Mallory on Mt. Everest as well as Tenzing and Hillary there many decades later. While many other companies also made portable stoves of a similar design to the Primus, this style is often generically referred to
as a “Primus” stove, regardless of the manufacturer.

Source: (en.wikipedia.org) The Free Encyclopedia.