Yes, there is such a thing as a antique electric fan because they started producing them in the 1890's before that they were of all things
water powered for those of you who may not know. Anyway, here are a few I've owned and restored for your perusal. The first one is a Antique 1906
12" GE pancake fan, pancake because the shape of it's motor. This was designed to be a desk fan but, it also came with an adapter that would let you hang it all the wall. These by the way are made of cast iron and of course brass and weigh in at about 35 pounds some have weighed more.
The next two are not antiques but are from the 40's and I took a little liberty with there restorations as you can see. Normally they would have been all painted a dark green. There little GE 9" and 6"oscillating fans,the measurement is of the blade diameter so these are generally used on desks but, could be mounted on a wall if one wishes.
One more and I'll bore you no more. This is an Emerson 12" oscillating fan from the 50's that I again took much liberty with cause normally it would have been a pale green, blue green, pale brown or any other unattractive color of the time period.
I hope some of you enjoyed viewing them, had a lot of fun restoring them and sadly sold most of them all off a few years ago.
I still have a few but, sadly most need to be restored and I'm still thinking how much I wish to go through to have a nice fan only to sell the dang thing again.
I reckon that's half the reason I've come to pipes, there a hell of a lot lighter and believe it or not easier.
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