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The Early Years 1893-1914
The Feuerhand hurricane lantern finds its starting point in Beierfeld, in the Saxon Ore Mountains of Central Europe. The brothers Hermann and Ernst Nier founded a production site there in 1893.
In 1902, The “Hermann Nier Feuerhandwerk” factory was started. It was the same year Hermann Nier 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 1926 the patents, as well as the trademark “Firehand” were also registered in the USA. The manufacture of the well-known small hurricane lanterns – the Baby series – with fireproof borosilicate glass began in 1933.
Between 1918 and 1938, Nier Feuerhand Became the Largest Manufacturer of Hurricane Lanterns in the World! Over this period of time, there were quite a lot of applications for new patents, including the improvement of the burners and development of a windbreak, the so-called “Sturmkappe”.
Since 2014, the trademark “Feuerhand” has belonged to the Petromax Group. The Feuerhand Baby Special #276 is produced in Hohenlockstedt (a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany) and reads proudly "Made in Germany".
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