Back in the 20s and 30s you couldn't tell a Salesman from the Mob.

[Russ Huber]

I was doing some scans and the thought came across my mind. 🙂

 

Edited September 3, 2023 by Russ Huber

[Trevor Andersen]

 

I've got a fan that you can't refuse.

Century must have had the biggest and meanest looking ones. That's the only way that potmetal sold. 

[Mark Olson]

8 minutes ago, Trevor Andersen said:

 

I've got a fan that you can't refuse.

Century must have had the biggest and meanest looking ones. That's the only way that potmetal sold. 

Really? Which Century fans are you referring to that had more pot metal than the rest? I have a few with no pot metal at all.

[Trevor Andersen]

26 minutes ago, Mark Olson said:

Really? Which Century fans are you referring to that had more pot metal than the rest? I have a few with no pot metal at all.

The later ones that I always run into for sale, not the skeletals or smaller steel ones. The entire housing on them is terrible swollen pot metal. 

[James Landry]

4 hours ago, Russ Huber said:

I was doing some scans and the thought came across my mind. 🙂

 

Strongarm fan teamsters?

[Russ Huber]

They didn't get held enough as a child? 

[Jim Kovar]

7 hours ago, Mark Olson said:

Really? Which Century fans are you referring to that had more pot metal than the rest? I have a few with no pot metal at all.

Pot metal,...
     ...the scourge metal!