Cincinnati Galvanizing Co. King Seamless-Cup Press
SSC Museum Collection, Ohio Foundry Corridor, Cast Iron Kitchen & Hollow Ware, Marked Pieces Steve Thaman SSC Museum Collection, Ohio Foundry Corridor, Cast Iron Kitchen & Hollow Ware, Marked Pieces Steve Thaman

Cincinnati Galvanizing Co. King Seamless-Cup Press

A King Seamless-Cup Press marked CIN'TI GALV CO. — cast iron handle, seamless galvanized steel cup, and a Cincinnati firm with a sixty-five year documented history behind it. The Schott Brothers founded Cincinnati Galvanizing in 1905 out of their family cooperage, built a major Spring Grove Avenue plant in 1920, and produced the King Seamless potato ricer as one of their documented specialty products. The seamless cup wasn't a brand claim — it was an engineering solution. First Cincinnati Galvanizing piece in the SSC collection.

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May & Fiebeger Heater Furnace Damper Dial Gauge
SSC Museum Collection, Ohio Foundry Corridor, Industrial Cast Iron, Marked Pieces Steve Thaman SSC Museum Collection, Ohio Foundry Corridor, Industrial Cast Iron, Marked Pieces Steve Thaman

May & Fiebeger Heater Furnace Damper Dial Gauge

A cast iron furnace damper dial gauge marked MAY & FIEBEGER — CHECK — AKRON OHIO, still fully functional after more than a century. Turn the dial and the ports open and close exactly as Frank Fiebeger designed them. Behind this single piece of Akron iron: a family that crossed the Atlantic in 1850, forty years of hardware and foundry work, seven U.S. patents, and a product line certified by federal commercial standards into the 1944s. First documented May & Fiebeger piece in the SSC collection

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