Posted 12 years ago
aycockonxion
(124 items)
This one I can't figure out. Really cool looking vintage fan, but it doesn't have any markings on it at all, except "710-308" on the underside of the base. No manufacturer, nothing! Frustrating... I looked through the entire gallery on http://www.fancollectors.org of American made fans and I can't find this one anywhere. There are several similar cage patterns, but none that are the exact same. The fan works and the oscillating mechanism tries to work.
So, the point is, I'm not sure how old it is or who made it. It could very well be anywhere from '20s to early-mid '50s.
I got in touch with a collector from Portland, Oregon who owns considerably more fans than I, and he informed me that it is a 1940's FA Smith Company "Fasco" fan.
Yeah, you can really tell it's before 50s by that base. Cool piece for sure!
You gonna restore it as well?
Probably so, as long as I can get *ahem* permission from the boss. Perhaps she could just give me blanket permission to restore everything I want? I think I'll work on that...
My Grandmother had this fan in her guest bedroom. I remember many summer nights when it would rotate back and forth and keep us cool in the upstairs bedroom of her home in Drexel Hill, PA. This was in the early 1950's.
Thank you for the comment keesiegirl.
And thank you for the love vanskyock24, and the like officialfuel!