Co-Operative Foundry Co Red Cross Stove Trade Card

Rochester, NY. One of the most striking Trade Cards published by Gies & Co., Buffalo, N. Y. An exceptional example of the height of Victorian Trade Cards. This card advertising the Red Cross Range. Scarce.

Print Type: Chromolithograph
Date: Circa 1885
Publisher: Gies Company
Dimensions: 5 x 3 1/2"
Provenance: Hill House
Subject: Stoves

Notes & Literature: Gies & Co., Buffalo, New York: This New York firm was co-founded by Charles Gies (1846-1922), and George H. Dunston (1851-1911), as Gies & Co, Buffalo, NY (1870 - c. 1922). It was a prominent publishing and printing establishment of original fine lithographic posters and engravings dealing with a vast variety of subjects. Their more commercial products included certificates, bookbinding, trade cards, labels, post cards and calendars and other advertising material and their firm also published, pamphlets, catalogues and books. The Buffalo Directory (1880) , lists the address of George H. Dunston (Gies & Co.), at 338 and 340 Washington, b. 132 Park. It also contains a listing for Gies & Co. (Charles Gies, George H. Dunston), printers and lithographers 338 and 340 Washington. The Commerce Manufacturers & Resources of Buffalo and Environs, Commercial Publishing Co. Limited, pg. 72 (1880), contains a brief history of the 'Gies & Co.', firm. It noted that the firm was established not more than five years prior to the printing of their article and was located at 305 & 307 Washington Street, in Buffalo, New York. It also indicated that this company was one of the largest and most complete establishments of its kind in the Unites States, monopolizing more and more of the trade which extended from Boston to San Francisco, from the Lakes to New Orleans, and reaching as far as the European countries and other foreign points. By 1884, the firm had relocated to 111 Swan Street in Buffalo. Gies & Company, Buffalo, New York and George H. Dunston had already left the firm. Gies & Co., Buffalo, New York shut down its operations around 1922. George H. Dunston also established other printing and publishing firms based in Buffalo, New York under his own name, listed as, 'G. H. Dunston Lith. Co.', 'G. H. Dunston, Lithographer, Engraver & Printer, Buffalo, NY', G. H. Dunston, Buffalo, New York', and 'G. H. Dunston Litho, Buffalo, NY''. An article in the Buffalo Courier-Express (Sunday, December 24, 1939), contains a short biography for Mr. George H. Dunston. It noted that Dunston Street between Skillen Street and Kenmore Avenue, perpetuated the name of George H. Dunston. This original lithographic trade card was printed for The Gouverneur Machine Company in 1886 after George H. Dunston left the Gies company.

Subject References: 133F