Remembering Monarch Range

The Malleable Iron Range Company owned at least two trademarks for the names of their ranges. One was "Monarch" and the other was "Paramount." Paramount ranges were gas ranges. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office shows the first usage of "Paramount" was on June 25, 1921; the 1925 Monarch Book of Cookery mentions Paramount gas ranges.

A history record of the Malleable Iron Range Company published in 1962 states: "As early as 1914 when natural and manufactured gas became available in various territories creating a demand for gas cooking equipment, the MONARCH line was supplemented with the PARAMOUNT line of gas ranges..."

Paramount items are more rare and harder to find, so they will be posted here as they are discovered.

• Paramount and Bakeven Gas Ranges from Catalog 23, dated 1923
• Paramount Gas Ranges Catalog 30A (1930)
• Paramount Gas Range Parts Catalog A Edition (circa 1930s)
• Paramount Gas Range Instruction Book (date unknown)
• Paramount Gas Range 6G4 (date unknown)
• Paramount Gas Ranges Parts Catalog and Manual (late 1940s??)
  Front cover, inside front cover, first two pages
  1J7
  5J6S, 5J6, LN6J6
  6J4
  F5K8, LN2K8, LN9K8, LN9K68
  LN1K6, LN2K6, LN3K6
  LN4K6, LN6K6
  NCG19P, LNCG19P
• Booklet that contains Paramount ranges 5J6, 5J6S, H3J6, HOC5J6 (circa mid-late 1940s)
• Booklet that contains Paramount ranges LN6J6, CG75P, H3J6 (circa mid-late 1940s)
• Booklet that contains Paramount gas-coal ranges CG75P, PCG75P from late 1940s
• Monarch-Paramount Gas Plate GP2D
• Monarch-Paramount Gas Plates GP1C, GP2C, GP3C, plus Paramount Laundry Stove LGP2C

Paramount Warranty from 1950s

Indirect Flue Gas Range Illustration circa 1950s

Miscellaneous sheets that show parts and features of Paramount ranges

My Future Kitchen
Brochure showing Paramount ranges
circa 1947
Click on brochure picture to open brochure as PDF.