Seeking to identify a stove - Lange / Scandia - Danish?

[mattwi1]

Hi. I bought a house with a kitchen stove in it. I have never used it, principally as it has no chimney/flue fitted. I think it may be Danish in origin as there are markings in the cast stating 'Lange, Svendborg'. I think Lange is a manufacturer and Svenborg is the town in Denmark where it was produced. I am confused by the Scandia markings as I know there is an Australian stove firm called Scandia but I'm pretty sure its not from Oz.

I'd be grateful for any help identifying the stove. See pictures attached. Thanks.

 

[begreen]

I would keep searching around the stove for an identifier. Look under the top plates, inside the oven door, back of stove, etc..There is a Scandia is from Taiwan that did knockoffs of European stoves. Not sure if this is the case here. I've not seen a Scandia cook stove.

 

[DanCorcoran]

I would keep searching around the stove for an identifier. Look under the top plates, inside the oven door, back of stove, etc..There is a Scandia is from Taiwan that did knockoffs of European stoves. Not sure if this is the case here. I've not seen a Scandia cook stove.

Here's a photo of a Scandia that I bought used, then resold without ever hooking it up. Didn't learn 'til later of its poor reputation.

 

[mattwi1]

Thanks guys. There are other markings such as this one on the side bearing the mark of 'Lange, Svendborg' (see pic) - which leads me to believe that it is an original Danish casting not a more recent knock-off from China. I have seen an older model called a Lange 911w elsewhere on this forum, I am thinking it may be an updated version of that. https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/lange-911w-wood-cook-stove.65470/

 

[begreen]

Scandia may be the model name.

 

[Wood Heat Stoves]

Scandia is a cheap Taiwan brand that replicated other stove designs. I used to sell Lange stoves, including the cookstove, before they stopped importing them into the US. My guess is that Scandia made a mold from a Lange stove and that's why the Lange name is in the casting. They never had a model called the Scandia.

 

[BrotherBart]

 

[BrotherBart]

https://www.hearth.com/images/uploads/Lange-911W-cookstove.jpg

 

[billb3]

L.Lange & Co. went out of business in 1984.
With the Scandia name on the front I'd be inclined to believe it was a Scandia (Taiwan foundry) knock off of <something> that they may have just put the Lange name on. Or it was a turn of the century Lange model they reverse engineered the castings. They were served a cease and desist from selling blatant copies and for a while just took the scandia name off their stoves and still sold them here and there anyway, I'm guessing until they got another cease and desist. . My dad had a 0.6 small stove with no name, just a serial number on the back corner.

I've done an image search for L.Lange & Co. cook stove and no cook stove with that name on it turn up except for images at Hearth.com.

 

[BrotherBart]

The pics here on hearth.com were provided to us by somebody whose grandparents owned one and it had the manual and other documentation in the oven. The stove is a genuine Lange.

 

[BrotherBart]

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25.Lange,Svendborg - Skandia.

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[begreen]

Maybe the name was ripped from Lange? Is Scandia name short for Scandinavian?

 

[BrotherBart]

"Early Greek and Roman geographers used the name Scandia for various uncharted islands in Northern Europe. The name originated in Greek sources, which used it for a long time for different islands in the Mediterranean region."