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Pre-1968 +GF+ Georg Fischer Switzerland Enameled Cast Iron Dutch Oven, 2.5-Quart For Sale
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Pre-1968 +GF+ Georg Fischer Switzerland Enameled Cast Iron Dutch Oven, 2.5-Quart:
$199.99
Up for sale is an beautiful rare Georg Fischer enameled cast iron dutch oven. The dutch oven is in excellent estate condition with some very minor age/use related wear. Only one small enamel chip along the bottom edge of the pot. Some utensil marks present inside the pot.
I would describe the color as somewhere between a burnt orange and candy apple red depending on the lighting.
Width: 8 5/8 in or 11 5/8 in handle to handle
Height: 4 in
Capacity: 2.5 quartsSome backstory about GF cookware:After the First World War, many countries benefited from an economic upturn at the beginning of the 1920s. GF expanded and acquired companies in Germany and Switzerland, including some in the mechanical engineering sector. There was now a total of seven GF sites in Switzerland, Germany, and France.However, this growth came to a sudden end in 1929. The economic upturn resulted in an oversubscription of shares in the US, and this speculative bubble burst on 24 October 1929. The New York stock market crashed. For an export-focused company like GF, the consequences of the Great Depression at the beginning of the 1930s were devastating, and orders were failing to materialize. GF’s immediate reaction was to strengthen customer relationships and to appoint traveling representatives to discuss the needs of customers in person, and restructure production accordingly. In 1933, GF launched a range of cooking pots made of enameled cast iron, based on response from a traveling sales representative. They became a bestseller. GF produced these indestructible cast iron pots in Switzerland from 1933 until 1968.During the crisis, many countries put protectionist measures in place to shield and strengthen their domestic economies. This had an impact on GF production sites in Switzerland and Germany: exports to England and its colonies – at the time, GF’s largest export market – became virtually impossible. To ensure that it did not lose this valuable sales territory, GF made a decision that management at the time described as “audacious”: at the lowest point of the Great Depression in 1933, GF invested a huge sum of money and opened its own malleable cast iron plant in Bedford (England), the Britannia Iron and Steel Works Limited.
Rethinking the business during the economic crisis: GF started producing cookware for the Swiss domestic market in 1933. Pots and pans made from enameled cast iron were promoted with advertisements like this one: people who bought GF products were securing jobs in Switzerland.
Pre-1968 +GF+ Georg Fischer Switzerland Enameled Cast Iron Dutch Oven, 2.5-Quart $199.99
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