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Original Doe-Wah-Jack Round Oak Stove Co. Adv.

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 500.00 USD
Original Doe-Wah-Jack Round Oak Stove Co. Adv.
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For your bidding pleasure is this Original Doe-Wah-Jack Round Oak Stove Co. Adv. The Round Oak Stove Company was founded in Dowagiac, Michigan in 1871 by P.D. Beckwith. The origin of the name Round Oak is unknown. The first theory is that Beckwith stoves were round and could hold a section of whole round oak tree in the fire pot. The second theorizes that he named it after a foundry of the same name in England. Round Oak was considered the finest heating stove money could buy because of the quality of its durable heating stove and by the late 1890s there were many “oak” imitators on the market. The company expanded rapidly and at its height in the 1910s, employed 1200 of the 5000 residents in Dowagiac, Michigan. Round Oak's influence on Dowagiac went far beyond its factory grounds. The company also added new products, like furnaces and cooking stoves, and introduced a popular mascot around 1900 – Chief Doe-Wah-Jack, Chief Doe-Wah-Jack, a fictional Native American Indian, appeared on most Round Oak Stove Company and Estate of P.D. Beckwith Inc. advertising and stoves until the company's demise in 1946. This lithograph portrait is an advertisement that is in pristine condition showing the fictional character Chief Doe-Wah-Jack. The portrait is embossed and pressed to texture the portrait and the gold border. In the bottom right hand corner shows a Native American tobacco belt that says Doe-Wah-Jack and then vertically Round Oak. Barely visible at the bottom of the portrait written above the oak frame is Round Oak Folks Dowagiac, Mich. Makes Good Goods Only. The measurements of this portrait are 25" x 9 1/2".