Feuerhand Baby Special 276 Hurricane Paraffin Lanterns

The Feuerhand hurricane lanterns are made from zinc-plated material which protects them against corrosion. This is why Feuerhand hurricane lanterns have been able to continue a tradition that is more than one hundred years old. Today the Feuerhand hurricane lanterns are available with a zinc-plated finish. They are also available in several different powder coated colours.

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Feuerhand Lanterns 

The Feuerhand lantern began life in Beierfeld in the Saxon Ore Mountains. Hermann Nier ran a plumber’s workshop in the 1870s. Where he made lanterns, amongst other things. With the increasing industrialisation, workshops were replacing factories that manufactured products. Thanks to mechanisation across Europe; that was also the case in Beierfeld, which was well-known for its metalworking. The brothers Hermann and Ernst Nier founded their production site for hurricane lanterns in 1893.

Five years after the foundation, the company Frankonia Albert Frank metalware bought out the Nier brothers, who became managers. Owing to differences with Frankonia, Hermann Nier finally started its own hurricane lantern factory “Hermann Nier Feuerhandwerk” in 1902. The same year, he applied for a patent for the manufacturing of lanterns using the stamping and folding techniques with tinning by hot-dipping and without hand-soldering.

In 1914 the trademark “Feuerhand” was registered for all products as a utility model of the German Reich – in German “Deutsches Reichs-Gebrauchsmuster” (DRGM) – and in 1920 the round Feuerhand emblem was added to the brand. Finally, in 1926 the patents; as well as the trademark “Firehand” was registered in the USA. The manufacture of the well-known small hurricane lanterns – the Baby series – with fireproof borosilicate glass from the Firma Schott from Jena began in 1933.

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Between 1918 and 1938, Nier Feuerhand became the biggest producer of hurricane lanterns in the world. Over this period of time, there were quite a lot of applications for new patents, amongst other things for the improvement of the burners and the development of a windbreak, the so-called “Sturmkappe”. With the beginning of World War II, the international market collapsed and a drop in the production was recorded. Like many factories, Nier Feuerhand ended up focusing on military production.

After the war, the Nier family was expropriated; the machines were dismantled and brought into Soviet Union. The family fled to the West to Lüdenscheid in Westphalia and built a small mass production facility; which was transferred to Hohenlockstedt in Schleswig-Holstein in 1949. In Beierfeld. The buildings as well as the original blueprints were taken over by the Metalware Publicly Owned Operation – in German “Volkseigener Betrieb Metallwaren” (VEB MEWA). The brand name “Feuerhand” still belonged to the family Nier, which is why the production in the GDR used the prevailing trademark “BAT”. This production continued until 1990.

Since 1989, the cold blast lantern Feuerhand Baby Special 276 was the only model that was produced. The worldwide renowned brand and its production of hurricane lanterns perpetuate a tradition that is more than one hundred years old.

Since autumn 2014, the trademark “Feuerhand” belonged to the Petromax group. The Feuerhand Baby Special 276 is plated with zinc and available in various colours. It continues to be produced in Hohenlockstedt and reads proudly ‘Made in Germany’.

Made in Germany

The cold blast Feuerhand hurricane lanterns are produced in Germany.

With its heat-resistant glass it provides a gentle light which lasts up to a maximum of 20 hours burning time from one filling.

Specifications

Height: 10 in (25.5 cm)

Width: 6.1 in (15.5 cm)

Weight: 520 g

Fuel tank capacity: 340 ml

Burning time: 20 hours

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