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Old Metal Red Cross Stoves & Ranges Advertising Premium Tip Tray
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The pictures show a top and bottom views of this Old Metal Red Cross Stoves & Ranges Advertising Premium Tip Tray. This small tip tray is not dated but it is from sometime between 1867 and 1930 when the company was in business. The tray appears to be made of thin aluminum. It has a stamped or embossed edge of scrollwork. It has a red Gothic cross in the center and it is marked as follows:

WITH BEST WISHES OF
CO-OPERATIVE FOUNDRY CO.
RED CROSS STOVES & RANGES
ROCHESTER, N.Y.
HAVE YOU A RED CROSS RANGE?

The tray measures about 4-3/8'' x 2-7/8''. It appears to be in good condition as pictured. Below here, for reference, is a short History of the Red Cross stove:

Red Cross stove
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Red Cross stove is a kitchen or parlor stove used for cooking and heating mainly North American homes of the late 19th and early 20th century. The reason for the name ''Red Cross'' was because of the advertising logo, which featured a red Gothic cross.

History
The ''Red Cross'' stove was manufactured in various versions and models from 1867 to 1930 by the Co-Operative Foundry Company of Rochester, New York, United States. This company made all kinds of heating stoves and cooking ranges and had a catalogue that featured a Maltese red cross. It eventually went out of business in 1930. This company that made the ''Red Cross'' stove was originally organized in 1867 by Nicholas Brayer and Edward W. Peck as the Co-Operative Foundry Company. Frank N. Brayer, father of Nicholas, became its president. Nicholas Brayer was foreman at the John M. French Foundry Company in the mid 19th century where the ''Red Cross'' stove and other heating stoves were being manufactured originally. That production part of the company branched off on its own and became the Co-Operative Foundry Company. The company prospered at a time when the furnace and stove industry was in flux, with many operations closing or moving proximity to new sources of demand, costs of transport, and location of raw materials were important factors. The Co-Operative Foundry Company started with its employees all owning stock in it. When this co-operative was organized it took over operations of a furnace and stove production plant called the French Foundry and used it as a branch location. In 1920 about $1,250,000 of furnaces, heaters, ranges and other kinds of stoves, including the ''Red Cross'' kitchen stove, were being manufactured. Frank M. Brayer, as president, was responsible for producing between 8,000 and 9,000 furnaces in the 1920s. It was estimated that over one million people were being warmed by these heating units that included the ''Red Cross'' stove.

The plant of the Co-Operative Foundry Company, where the ''Red Cross'' stove and other ranges were mainly manufactured, consisted of six major buildings and a few smaller ones with a combined floor area of 300,000 square feet. The prosperous company had the latest technological devices for keeping the manufacturing air clean for the employees and had about 250 people at its peak operation. The company at its Rochester plant in 1920 had a recently installed porcelain enameling plant adjoining the main assembling plant. The enameling capability could then produce fifty ''Red Cross'' stoves a day. The concrete structure plant producing the ''Red Cross'' stove contained 7200 square feet of floor space. This ''Red Cross'' stove production branch had its own electric power plant equipped with a 450 horse power Kerr Turbine. In 1909, the full line of ''Red Cross'' enameled stoves had its own special 76 page color catalog to illustrate the models and colors available. The colors were grey, blue, green, and black. There was a prosperous European business for the ''Red Cross'' stove headquartered in the Netherlands.

There was also another branch of the company in Chicago that started in 1879 that also marketed ''Red Cross'' stoves. This branch was run by Robert Robinson under the name R. Robinson and Son located on Lake St. The company changed its name in 1890 to Robinson Furnace Company when they added warm air heaters.

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