In This Issue

History Brief:

America Exports Her Stoves 1880's to the 1900's

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This article is truly a brief. In order to have an indepth picture we would need to view the records of stove companies long since defunct or at least be able to interview the sales veterans of those said companies. However, it is possible to get a glimpse of the stove export picture by piecing together excerpts from catalogs, trade publications, trade cards, newspaper articles, government reports and etc.

We know from information in the 1880's trade publications that the United States was importing pig iron and other metals from countries like England, Scotland, Russia etc. We also know that a lot of this iron ended up in American stoves. Were stoves among the items America was exporting to the world in return? Examining an 1881 issue of The Metal Worker......

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Collector Profile:

Meet Dennis Gunsolus of Duluth, MN

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Where the St. Louis river empties into the western end of Lake Superior, lies the city of Duluth, Minnesota.  Arguably the most beautiful port on the Great Lakes.  It is also home to stove collector Dennis Gunsolus.

Gunsolus has one of the most exciting stove collections in the United States.  He traces his affliction with the Cast Iron Fever to the time when he worked at an ornamental iron shop in Oregon around 1970.  He bought his first serious stove around 1971, a Fuller & Warren Stewart #61 baseburner.  When the book “Artistry in Iron” was published in 1975, Gunsolus was off to Manchester, VT to visit Doug Cain’s Antique Stove and Tin Museum.  Cain, one of the grandfathers of stove collecting, and...

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