The Rome Manufacturing plant was updated in the mid 1920’s to include the newest equipment and research laboratories, making it a leader in brass manufacturing. These were made from multiple parts formed from copper sheet soldered together, and finally plated with first nickel, and later chrome. It produced a huge variety (by the 1920’s it claimed to have made over 10,000 different products for the home) from sheet copper and brass including boiling kettles and washtubs (Domestic hot water was still a luxury, and these were used to heat water on the kitchen stove.) Lightweight nickel or chrome plated tea kettles and coffee pots were also important products. Meanwhile, Rome Manufacturing was established in 1892 as a division of Rome Brass Copper with manufacturing facilities in Rome, NY. By the turn of the century, Revere & Son (as Paul Revere’s company was known) had merged with the Taunton-New Bedford Copper Company, located in New-Bedford, Massachusetts. Cookware was a later addition, coming after 1890, and included skillets with heavy copper bodies, straight sides, and flat uninsulated iron handles. Stove-top and oven-ware were typically heavy (cast iron, copper, or bronze), while lighter tinware was used for kettles, cups, and tableware.ħ Until the 1900’s, the Revere name was associated mostly with the manufacture of copper cladding, copper/brass castings (bells, canon, ship fittings), boilers, nails,and spikes. In the 1800’s, everyday cookware was fairly crude – little emphasis was placed on design other than to make it functional. (IE users: view->text-size->medium or large Netscape users: view->text->larger)
Note: If the following text overlaps the pictures, or the pictures are not at the right margin of the page, you need to enlarge your type size in your browser settings. A Photographic History of Revere’s Product Lines
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