Antique J.H. Grayson Co. "Ray-Glo" Gas Fireplace Heater / Insert Circa 1924
This is an Antique Item
This is an antique cast iron, steel, and ceramic gas "Ray-Glo" fireplace insert or heater manufactured by the J.H. Grayson Company around 1924. This piece is in good condition with very nice patina. This item has not been tested nor do we guarantee if it is in working order.
The "Ray-GLO" gas heater was manufactured by the J.H. Grayson Co, originally of Athens, Ohio. The company moved offices to Shelbyville, Indiana around 1935. An article from Volume 112 of the American Gas Engineering Journal, published in 1920, tells the story of the Grayson Company:
"The Grayson Manufacturing Company, Athens, Ohio., is placing on the market a radiating mantle tvpe heater called the "Ray-Glo." the company is composed of men of wide experience in the manufacture of gas appliances in England, especially in the gas cooking and heating field. In 1907 J. H. Grayson came to the United States and in 1914 with his brother, G. L. Grayson, formed the Grayson Tool & Manufacturing Company at Indianapolis, Ind., and a year later was joined by William Carr, a brother-in-law who also had been employed with them in England. During the war each of the men engaged in war work. After the armistice, they formed the Grayson Manufacturing Company, locating at Athens, Ohio.
The company is specializing on the Ray-Glo, a heater using separate composition mantles and composition back wall, which reached a high stage of development in England about the time war was declared.
Charles Harbison, one of the best known gas appliance salesmen in the country, has been made sales manager for the Grayson Company."
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