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The switch body was fractured into 5 sections, imagine that. That wasn't the end of it. Today something beautiful to make the switch come alive again came in the mail! Chris Campbell's Emerson switch lever insulator replacements. Now the switch has hope again! Thanks Chris!

I don't know how many furniture lovers we have in the AFCA but here's a cabinet you might appreciate. Back in early October, I was checking out Craigslist and saw this piece of furniture that caught my eye. I thought about it for a while and then passed as my wife has put a moratorium on my bringing home any more furnishings. About a month later, this piece was still on CL so I inquired if it was still available. The owner replied that it was, so I talked to my boss here at work and showed him the piece. I mentioned that I was going to purchase it and wanted to put it in the museum. I said that we could put fans in it and he said that was fine. The next day I grabbed my son and another person and went over to check it out. Other than a few nicks and scratches it was in remarkable shape for a thirty year old cabinet. I had to ask why he wanted to get rid of such a nice piece of furniture and he said it had belonged to his ex-wife. She had moved out a few years earlier and said she didn't want it anymore. He said he was tired of it taking up so much room and wanted it gone. He also said that while he had received a couple of inquiries, no one was serious about taking it until I showed up. I felt his asking price was ridiculous but I paid it anyhow. Then I thought about it and I doubled it. We went to work and disassembled the top from the lower cabinets and then loaded the three heavy pieces into the truck. Once back at the museum, we chose a spot and reassembled it. After getting it leveled, I cleaned it up a bit and did some touchup on the spots needing it. It now holds fans that are for sale to visitors. Say hello to the newest addition to the Museum. Best $200 I've ever spent....It's from The John Widdicombe Furniture Co. of Grand Rapids and was part of their 'Russian Collection'. My wife came over to see it and said it looks nice right where it is.....Now if I can only figure out how to get it home someday.

Picked these up from Rick...a real nice person to talk to. I believe these to be German. They are heavy for being a toy motor. The lightest one is around 3.5 pounds and the heaviest one is around 7 pounds. These will give me an opportunity to learn how to do windings due to my fat finger syndrome. Here is the lightest one. This one is about 5 pounds. This one is about seven pounds.

If I could find more fans in the same condition it would make me happy. I wish all my fans were in that condition when found. It takes a lot of time and hard work in most cases.

Where would most of be without the help of one another? Russ, you always post helpful insights and Chris is incredible with his work.

Dan, this is my late Edison. Shaft diameter for the rotor is ⅜" using vernier calipers to measure. The blade shaft diameter is 7/32" The four wing blade fan you show is the Ironclad which probably has a smaller diameter as it is a much smaller fan.

My first wife was always complaining about how I had too much stuff laying around and that I needed to get rid of something......I missed her for the first week or so....

Also picked up a 2010 this year and had the stator rewound by Mr. Huckabee. Runs like new and is one of my new favorites! Love the fat motors.

There is a story to my Emerson 2010. Vert early in my collecting and right after joining the AFCA I saw it on ebay along with a 12666 in similar condition and I wanted one of them. I wanted both but could only afford one. The 12666 finished first at a very high price and I was outbid by a pair of people on that one. Just FIVE MINUTES later the 2010 would end so I had to set myself up quickly on ebay to try to win it. Well, I was the high bidder but soon after the auction ended I started to see comments on the fan forum about it and the 12666 that led me to think I may never get the 2010. A club member was putting a handful of very nice original fans on ebay because the owner did not have internet. From the ebay photos a few club members knew the owner, Warren Kernel, a nice old man and AFCA member who had an electric shop in a rough part of St. Louis. There were some very questionable tactics from the man selling the fans for Warren and I thought, from comments on the forum, that I might never see the fan. I did get it just fine and the selling agent was booted from the AFCA. If you ever had a chance to visit South Side Electric to meet Warren and his trove of old and very nice fans it was a pleasure. Warren even gifted me a good working Powerstat variac which I have used for a long time as a necessary tool for fan collecting. Sadly Warren passed on some years ago but I am glad to have met him. I don't know the story of my 2010 but it appears that Warren had replaced the power and head wires and rubber feet. Bill Hoehn, another recenty deceased club member, was a friend of Warrens and would spend much time in Warren's shop working on fans with Warren, restoring some. In their time both must have seen a lot of old Emersons in very good condition like my 2010. Bill had a huge collection of just about all the old Emerson models and some I have not seen elsewhere. Looking back I see that this 2010 was the first fan in my collection which, to that time- 2001- consisted of about 7-8 BB and SC fans I had bought around 1970. It was also my first ebay fan and well above the prices I had paid prior to it.

Be careful! Bringing a piece of furniture that large home can lead to ex- spouses as witnessed by previous owner. Better stick to fans.😉

From the ABC TV show "ALIAS" - - an Emerson K60 in a torture room in "Budapest", later they showed a 1950s Dominion Desk fan

This R&M, about the same time period.

Boy Steve, that one musta sat on the top shelf in a closet forgotten about for half a century or more. Dan'l , yours made a great comeback for sure

Kirke questioned to some degree the unusual black enamel on this Signal Cool Spot of his when he sent it to me. I didn't after I carefully examined it when I received it. I could resist removing some of the enamel to expose her brass components.

The only reason I responded indecisive as to the Mysto mottled copper finish was the inability to validate it in the books. However, the mottled copper process is not a walk in the park procedure, and a potentially dangerous process at that it appears with the use of cyanide as described in my post above. Darryl Hudson was adamant he had one passed on to the late Kirke West. I bought a fan from Kirke West years ago, Kirke was into different fans that stood out from the crowd and had good taste in doing so. I respected Kirke. Darryll appears to have had a serious appetite from the cubs at one time seen in his image. I would say the chances of the mottled finish from the factory would be in a high percentage.

Congrats on a cool find. Definitely on a lot of wish lists…..including mine.

Congratulations!! Great looking with copper oxide.

Nice fan. You talk to 50 collectors and half will say never made that way and the other half will say they were. Regardless, looks very nice. If they weren't made they should have been. I have one myself.

Awesome! I’m still in the hunt.

Japanned ones are crazy rare.. congratulations!...

Nice. I have the same one but I need to find a correct blade. It has some later polar cub blade on it.