Virginia Metalcrafters Cast Iron Fireplace Cover "VIRG a 1737'
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Virginia Metalcrafters Cast Iron Fireplace Cover "VIRG a 1737' For additional photos and close-ups, please see the photo gallery above This listing includes a Virginia Metalcrafters cast iron frieplace insert with "VIRG a 1737" on it. It has been repainted black on the front. It's measurements are 24" tall X 20 1/2" across the front X 1 1/8" thick. It is VERY heavy weighing 63 pounds!!! Virginia Metalcrafters was founded on October 6th, 1890, as the W.J. Loth Stove Company. Located in Waynesboro, Virginia, on the western slopes of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, the company manufactured cast iron stoves and wood and coal heaters. The company’s motto at the time was, “Loth Stoves Make Happy Homes”. Loth, together with his son Percy, made the decision in the late 1890’s to add frying pans, waffle irons, tea kettles and other cookware to the company’s product line. Some of the tools used to make those original cooking products are still in the company’s archives. When Mr. Loth died in 1904, Percy ran the company until failing health caused him to seek help. At the end of World War I, he invited his paternal cousin, retired Army Captain Richard Clemmer, to take control of the business. Clemmer realized that the future was not in wood and coal heating and in 1922 hired a Canadian electrical engineer, Mr.
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