Société du Familistère de Guise Godin et Cie.... Lot 265

Société du Familistère de Guise Godin et Cie. Toy stove n°3, model created in 1887. Nickel-plated cast-iron reduction of a stove with two cooking holes on the top table, an oven, a steamer and a hot-water boiler, a door to the hearth and an ashtray in a drawer. The cast-iron panel on the left side of the fireplace has circular holes at the height of the ashtray, probably to prevent the material from overheating. Top edges and uprights with pearl friezes, baluster feet with gadroons. Marked Godin et Cie - BTE S.G.D.G on the front, and numbered 3 on the side. H. 32 cm - W. 35 cm - D. 22 cm. Missing smoke exhaust nozzle. Bibliography: Album général d'août 1887 des Fonderies et manufactures de la Société du Familistère de Guise Godin & Cie, Paris, Victor Rose imprimeur et graveur, 1887, p. 50, 65. The first toy stove models, numbers 1 to 4, appear in the 1887 album of the Société du Familistère de Guise. They are true cooking appliances in reduction, functioning like domestic coal- or wood-fired stoves, and built in a comparable way from multiple, separately molded parts. As educational toys, they can be used at hardware stores or exhibitions as demonstration specimens of larger stoves. An identical model (with nozzle) is preserved in the Familistère de Guise collections.