VHM_0049

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Tabletop stove
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This tabletop kerosene stove was created by Trần Chí Hồng Tiên during his internment in a Communist "re-education" camp after the Vietnam War. Using salvaged bomb fragments, food containers, and limited tools, he constructed the stove over several months. The stove consists of three main components: a lower reservoir for kerosene, a central section supporting wick tubes, and a top burner made from a Guigoz milk can. The wick height is adjustable via a handmade cogwheel, carved from a zinc coin or bomb shard. Barbed wire legs supported cooking pots. These stoves were used by prisoners to prepare simple meals during their internment.

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