Kenrick & Sons Antique Coffee Grinder: Cast Iron & Brass
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Antique cast iron & brass coffee grinder by a Kenrick & Sons
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- Kenrick, Archibald & Sons - Archibald Kenrick & Sons operated an iron foundry at West Bromwich, near Birmingham from 1791 to the 1950s.
The company was founded by Archibald Kenrick I (1760 - 1835) and the firm came to specialise in cast iron kitchen hollow-ware, which became its main product line in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
By the World War I the company had became one of the areas leading metal manufacturers. The interwar years were difficult, but in the 1950s, Kenricks acquired the manufacturing rights to the Shepherd castor for furniture, the market leader. This was to be crucial to the firm's prosperity in the 1960s and 70s.
Kendrick cast iron may be identified by a cast of the full company name into an unobtrusive section of an object, or alternatively, the an abbreviated mark, "A. K. & SONS".
There is a cast iron kettle by Kenrick in the Museum Victoria collection, and a cast iron double lotus shape doorknocker in the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.
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