Jason Stever Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 One of my favorites. Branded for Graybar. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Rockwell Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 Got a paper tag under that base? I try to make sense of serial numbers..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Aidinovich Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 Congrats Jason - Great fan!!! I'm not really into the art deco or vintage fans therefore focus on the Cast Iron/Brass blade fans. However, that GE fan (55x164) was an exception for me, much like you, a favorite/bucket list fan which I finally acquired one earlier this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Stever Posted December 19, 2022 Author Share Posted December 19, 2022 1 hour ago, Steve Rockwell said: Got a paper tag under that base? I try to make sense of serial numbers..... Unfortunately, long gone 😞 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Stever Posted December 19, 2022 Author Share Posted December 19, 2022 1 hour ago, Mike Aidinovich said: Congrats Jason - Great fan!!! I'm not really into the art deco or vintage fans therefore focus on the Cast Iron/Brass blade fans. However, that GE fan (55x164) was an exception for me, much like you, a favorite/bucket list fan which I finally acquired one earlier this year. 55x164 that’s it. I couldn’t remember ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Rathberger Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 Don't forget the "G." Here's mine Steve, not the best condition... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Rockwell Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 Thanks Michael. I really can't read the number; my imagination says it's R24675. It would be good to know authoritatively... I may as well spit this out here, as good a place as any, with Jason's shiny blade above to inspire. Bottom right corner of the label reads J-442A superseding J-442. Same as happened with the 55x164 and the 55x164B, the labels for this 55x164G underwent transition, and were denoted to indicate those changes with a different label designation bottom right, printing date lower left... that's May 1933 if the round-head screw didn't obscure the final two numerals. My recent insight is this (and if anyone has confirmation or refutation, I'd be glad to know of it): the (2M) I believe to indicate a printing of 2,000 labels. Other labels for 55x164, labels GEJ-436, -436A & -436B, according to this theory, had two runs of (2M), and a run of (5500). With 55x164B, I don't have a GEJ-439 sighting, only -439A with (1700). [They just didn't commonly use figures such as 5.5M or 1.7M in the early thirties] The earliest tags had the c.s. number (spec.) hand-written. Alpha-numerics sometimes lack the letter component. So Jason, these are the Graybars: Does this stand up to scrutiny? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russ Huber Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 1 hour ago, Steve Rockwell said: Thanks Michael. I really can't read the number; my imagination says it's R24675. It would be good to know authoritatively... I may as well spit this out here, as good a place as any, with Jason's shiny blade above to inspire. Bottom right corner of the label reads J-442A superseding J-442. Same as happened with the 55x164 and the 55x164B, the labels for this 55x164G underwent transition, and were denoted to indicate those changes with a different label designation bottom right, printing date lower left... that's May 1933 if the round-head screw didn't obscure the final two numerals. My recent insight is this (and if anyone has confirmation or refutation, I'd be glad to know of it): the (2M) I believe to indicate a printing of 2,000 labels. Other labels for 55x164, labels GEJ-436, -436A & -436B, according to this theory, had two runs of (2M), and a run of (5500). With 55x164B, I don't have a GEJ-439 sighting, only -439A with (1700). [They just didn't commonly use figures such as 5.5M or 1.7M in the early thirties] The earliest tags had the c.s. number (spec.) hand-written. Alpha-numerics sometimes lack the letter component. So Jason, these are the Graybars: Does this stand up to scrutiny? I am still trying to process all the above details let alone scrutinize. I think everybody should just pack and ship their Gosling design GE to Steve. I bet he would like that. I would. 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Rockwell Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 (edited) ..... all that pedantry because I think 2M stands for 2,000..... I think everybody should just pack and ship their Gosling design GE to Steve. I bet he would like that. I would. Well, Thanks Russ, I can't argue, your logic is flawless. Still I won't get my hopes up, if it happens it happens........ Edited December 20, 2022 by Steve Rockwell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Rockwell Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 I forgot to post this last night, just discovered it yesterday, a fresh insight to the relationship between Graybar (by that time, effectively, the Western Electric's Supply Dept.) and GE. If Graybar weren't stated to be employee-owned, I'd have thought GE had a financial position there, since I don't know of other companies having an office within the Works... The article, dated 11 Aug 1932, concerns the demolition of an old building at a corner of the site..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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