This is one of the things that French stove manufaturers do rather well, making colourful enamel finished stove. It is something that they have been doing way back to the late 1800. I recently came across this Antique Green Enamel Franco Belge Lorraine Multi-Fuel Stove at an address in Sturmer. The customer believes that it dates from the 1930’s, so it is reasonably old and was installed into an unlined brick chimney. As you can probably also see from the photograph, that the door catch is missing. That said it is certainly a thing of beauty, with its glorious green enamel finish and its fancy ornate molding on the casting. One thing I can say for sure is that I had not seen one of these stoves before, it’s a real rarity! I come across most of the other Franco-Belge model variants with a high degree of frequency around the area, but this is the only instance I have swept an enamel Franco-Belge Lorraine.

The Franco-Belge company have been making cast iron stoves for over 90 years, the are based in Mariembourg in Belgium: Franco Belge Europe S.A. 127ieme RIF, 15 Zoning industriel 5660, Mariembourg http://www.fbeurope.be/en/5-contact