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Primus stove used by Charles Lindbergh, 1931. American aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, purchased this Primus portable stove at Baker Lake, Canada, a remote trading post northwest of Hudson Bay, during their 1931 flight in the Lockheed Sirius "Tingmissartoq", to the Orient. They also brought it on their 1933 survey flights across the North and South Atlantic. Brass round metal portable cooking stove with three legs and a valve to supply the fuel. The top of the stove, where the flame is located can detach from the body of the stove.