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Collecting Graniteware

PostPosted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 4:00 pm
by countryjoe
Need to add some color to your kitchen or just want that country look? How about collecting or decorating with enamelware, also known as graniteware. Enameled kitchenware was first mass-produced in Europe, in the last quarter of the 19th century, where it was manufactured in England, France, Germany, and elsewhere. The immigrants from these countries brought their trade secrets to our shores when they arrived here. American enameled items came to be called graniteware -- a term that may have come from the popularity of Granite Iron Ware, produced in 1876 by the St. Louis Stamping Co. conitinued .....Collecting Graniteware / Enamelware

See ya, Country Joe