Inter-war / Early WW2, British, Dunkirk Era Style, ‘Tommy Cooker’.

Was £75 now £60

Self-contained 'solid fuel' version of the WW1 pattern portable stove in a small tin with attachable pot stand.
There were similar commercial stoves sold as the ‘Tommy's Cooker and the ‘Blackie’.
This example is of the Blackie and is in good condition, still containing its shrunken pellet of fuel.
There is some conjecture that these Blackie Cookers are of post war manufacture being that packaging refers to the Everest Expedition, however, this may not refer to the 1953 Hillary conquest of the mountain but to one of the British expeditions of the 1920’s e.g., the Mallory attempt of 1924.

The final photograph shows a group of British BEF Tommie’s during the Phoney War period ‘brewing up’ with their new pattern mess tins, white enamel mugs, SRD rum ration and using a Tommy Cooker.

Priced to reflect the rarity of this much sought after item of kit, photographs of which show use in the trenches of the Phoney war.

Code: 177