Trying to be Correct

[Bobby Gaines]

When did GE start painting the background on their motor tags and badges?  Pictured 8" GE not all brass.

[Paul Michael]

You men when they switched from an oxide finish to paint? I don't know exactly. That's a good question for Kim Frank!

[Steve Stephens]

1915 models were the first to have the cage badge background blackened.   Prior to that most of the GE brass was finished in a "dipped and lacquered" finish, (not polished)

[Bobby Gaines]

Thank You Steve for that information !

[Russ Huber]

Go for it, Bobby. When you have embossed letters and numbers like that tag, painting background and removing the paint from the raised areas is a cake walk. I just got done with an Emerson teens long tag with little to no raised areas. A magnifying light, sharp tip exact-o, and I said my prayers before I went at it. 🙂