[GreenKeys] model 14 and 2B questions
epvgk at limpoc.com
epvgk at limpoc.com
Wed Nov 2 16:45:29 EDT 2016
On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 04:43:50PM -0400, Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC via GreenKeys wrote:
> I take it that some of the early tables really were wood finish no
> paint then?
>
> Ed#
I've at least seen a M26 table with wood finish. (At Paul Cembura's)
>
>
> In a message dated 11/2/2016 1:30:37 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
> jhhaynes at earthlink.net writes:
>
> I happen to have a wooden Model 19 table. Some Western Electric
> distribution house slathered some kind of gray-green paint on it.
> There are places where the gray-green has peeled and underneath you
> can see nice mahogany furniture finish. Back in the 1930s they also
> hand-painted the metal covers of the equipment to look like grained
> wood. Which of course looks perfectly phony, but I guess office people
> in that era liked wooden office furniture. And then came the era of
> metal office furniture and they painted over the wood to make it look
> like metal. Now of course we can get vinyl contact paper that looks
> like wood so it's much cheaper to fake wood finish. Or leopard skin,
> or any other design that happens to be popular.
>
>
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