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The Ronson lighter company started as The Art Metal Works in 1897 and was incorporated on July 20, 1898, by Max Hecht, Louis Vincent Aronson and Leopold Herzig, in Newark, New Jersey. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Flour City Ornamental Iron Works Company was founded by Eugene Tetzlaff in 1893 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company was originally a blacksmith shop, but later, it became a manufacturer of wrought and cast iron. [3] [4] During World War II, Flour City produced aluminum bridge pontoons and aircraft parts.
In a two-page article on the history of C. Jeré for the November 2010 issue of Elle Decor, Mitchell Owens wrote that, after launching in 1964, C. Jeré sculptures were "distributed by Raymor, a cutting edge studio in New York City, and retailed at Gump's in San Francisco and other high quality emporiums…Under Freiler's meticulous direction ...
At first producing only cast-iron products, the company added nickel-plated ware in 1892. [1] In 1894 Wagner was one of the first to make aluminum cookware. [3] The company acquired their competitor Sidney Hollow Ware from Phillip Smith in 1897. A third brother, William H. Wagner, joined the company to run this operation.
Herbert Black joined his father's scrap metal recycling business, American Iron and Metal Company Inc. ("AIM") in 1961, at the age of 17. Over the past 55+ years, he has played a key role in transforming AIM from a local scrap operation to one of the largest and most successful recycling enterprises in North America.
Art's Way Manufacturing is an American producer of agricultural machinery, modular buildings and cutting tools under the brand names Art's Way, Art's Way Scientific and American Carbide Tool. [1] The firm previously manufactured OEM feed blowers sold by Case New Holland .
Another toy produced by Ohio Art in the 1960s was the Bizzy Buzz Buzz, invented by Bernard Benson. Though the Ohio Art Company partook in the toy industry and was very successful, the metal lithography sector of the company remains the core part of its business. It is one of the leading producers of specialty lithographic components.
Luristan bronze objects came to the notice of the world art market from the late 1920s and were excavated in considerable quantities by local people, "wild tribesmen who did not encourage the competition of qualified excavators", [10] and taken through networks of dealers, latterly illegally, to Europe or America, without information about the contexts in which they were found. [11]