Company/Creator:
J. W. Fiske Iron Works, Manufacturers, New York
Catalogue Title:
Illustrated Catalogue of Iron Vases, Fountains, Deers, Dogs,
Lions, Chairs, Settees (1865)
-- Includes 1874 supplement of fountains and pedestals (last
4 photos, are examples)
-- Please note, this catalog
only shows vases, jardinieres, mower, bed roller, urn type vases, flower
pots, pedestals. However the size of some of the vases would suggest
they were used as "fountains" one being 72" in diameter for an example.
As well animals such as deer, dogs, lions, cherubs are design elements
of many of the vases. Please see pics.
Details about this publication:
Replica of the original
trade samples catalog fine ready-made decorative iron garden fixtures
and elements.
-- 30 pages,
in very good, like new condition. Glossy, flex covers,
spiral coil binding.
-- Replica/reprint published by Portable Trunk Publishers.
(undated, modern edition) 2014.
Profusely illustrated with trade samples from the era. Thoroughly
engaging.
A delightful look into early American ornamental iron garden element.
Shows trade samples, specialty designs for building firms, architects,
general merchandisers and jobbers.
Ideal catalog for artists, collectors, and antique dealers in finely
made iron designs made in America over 150 years ago.
Perfect guide for collectors, designers, restorers, period prop
departments or antiques dealers of Fiske's iron pieces.
About the company:
J. W. Fiske & Company of New York City was
the most prominent American manufacturer of decorative cast iron and
cast zinc in the second half of the nineteenth century. In addition to
their wide range of garden fountains, statues, urns, and cast-iron
garden furniture, they provided many of the cast-zinc Civil War
memorials of small towns throughout the northern states following the
American Civil War. These were commonly painted to imitate bronze.
The entrepreneurial founder, Joseph Winn Fiske (May 22, 1832 — October
20, 1903) out-sourced the iron and zinc-alloy foundry-work itself, and
concentrated on the firm's connections with modellers on the one hand
and customer relations on the other. Fiske, of a colonial family in
Chelmsford, Massachusetts, spent some years as a merchandiser in
Melbourne, Australia, before returning to the United States in 1857. He
founded his business, at first in partnership with hardwareman Thomas W.
Brown, in Boston (by 1862) and New York, December 1863. The "& Co." was
dropped in 1862 in the business. Fiske's lavishly illustrated
catalogues, issued at brief intervals, kept the firm in the public eye
and incidentally show art historians how casually design patents were
infringed in the nineteenth century. -- Source: Wikipedia --
Soft cover, paperback edition in very good condition, with typical
slight wear to edges and spine from being moved around the shop, stored
flat.
Firmly readable, ideal for reference and
collecting. Very nice.
Clean Text. Very Good condition. Text is in English.
Reproduced directly from the original. Modern, undated
replica. Facsimile edition
-- Defects: General wear
from being moved around the shop. Otherwise none found.
-- **Some of the text maybe small, so it could be a little hard to read. As well paper quality of the original may have been low, and thus some images may be cloudy or faint in nature. Please see pictures.
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Location: from inventory, 1865 Fiske Vase Catalog
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