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Antique Victorian Cast Iron Dog Tray Nutcracker –

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This Antique Victorian Cast Iron Dog Tray Nutcracker – Harper Supply Co. was produced in 1899. It measures 9 3/8” long at the base and approximately 13 ½” tail to muzzle. It stands approximately 5 ¾” tall at the head. It is a St. Bernard in which the tail moves the jaw to crack nuts. It is in EXCELLENT CONDITION! NO loose screws etc. It is marked in the Casting DOG TRAY NUT CRACKER on the Top and HARPER SUPPLY CO., NO. CHICAGO, PAT. APLD FOR (received in 1900- 660,033)on the Underside. A little history:
Cast-Iron Dog Tray Nut Cracker, 1899
Made By: Harper Supply Co. (40 Dearborn St, Chicago) / Chicago Hardware Foundry Co. (2500 Commonwealth Ave., North Chicago, IL)
By the 1940s, many of America’s once beloved bronze nutcrackers were suddenly deemed expendable contributions to the war effort, as scrap drives led to the demise of thousands of slack-jawed iron dogs, squirrels, birds, and alligators—not to mention many similar figural coin banks and bookends.; In a newsletter published by the Still Bank Collectors Club of America in 1985, researcher Bruce Abell spoke with a former Chicago Hardware Foundry employee—by then in his 80s—who also recalled breaking up all the original brass pattern molds from the company vaults in 1942, “when our country needed brass so badly.” This is the last of its kind.
The Dog Tray Nut Cracker was produced as a joint venture between the Chicago Hardware Foundry Co.—which made the product in its sprawling works in North Chicago (a small town about 40 miles north of regular Chicago)—and the Harper Supply Company, a Chicago-based business focused on the design and distribution of various small iron castings, including coin banks, caster wheels, clothes irons, etc. Both companies were established in 1897, and there seemed to be a symbiotic relationship in effect almost from the beginning.
Over the years, anything animal-shaped coming out of the North Chicago foundry was usually attributed to Harper Supply and its president, James M. Harper—who is best remembered for his highly collectable figural coin bank designs.
Harper Supply Co Not surprisingly, the dog nutcracker—which has the “Harper Supply Co.” name plastered on its base—often gets grouped in with J. M. Harper’s other cast-iron critters of the same era. As noted, though, this dog was actually created and patented by one of the foundry heads, Earl Sedgwick, who probably based the design on similar models already widely available in Europe. It’s also possible he might have been inspired by a real-life pooch named “Lemons”—the beloved companion of the foundry’s co-founder and first president, John Sherwin. That possibility is, of course, thoroughly unconfirmable.

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