Whether the "gilt" finish was some kind of lacquer or a paint I do not know.ĭating GE pancakes (alternating current models):Īll GE "fan motors" had 6 blade fans from 1894 through 1898 after which all fans were of four blades starting with the 1899 models. That finish is clearly not "polished" brass. My original finish 1905 pancake shows a finish looking something like gilt and which seems to have been the finish used through about 1915-16 on GE brass blade fans. The 1905 GE catalog states "Lacquered brass fan, guard, and trimmings". This somewhat surprised me as most of the original pancakes I have prior to 1904 did not show much if any remaining "polished" brass even though GE catalogs stated "polished brass fan, guard, and trimmings" (18 catalogs). The finish, and a pretty fair amount of it was intact, was unmistakenly "polished and lacquered brass" and a full, high gloss polish. Recently I had the chance to see a very original and unmessed with 1903 pancake. The lacquer used to coat brass parts of GE pancakes does not seem to be very durable unlike some other makes which makes determining the actual finish on the brass difficult. Did GE not have any 1905 model stick mount castings and had to resort to using older castings for a limited run of these stick mount 1905 models? Since the thumbscrew and its placement did not happen until 1905, this base must have been modified by the factory in order to build this stick mount fan. Here you see the original hole filled with another slotted screw. In 1905 the base casting was modified to have a thumbscrew on the left while the original slotted screw was moved just to the right of where it had been in 1903-04. The earlier base has just one slotted screw in the middle of the boss on the casting. In 1903-04 the pancake bases had just the center (slotted) screw (compare this photo with the photo above of the early 1903 trunnion pancake base.
Note the thumbscrew at the top of the base neck and the two slotted screws immediately to the right. The round, conical shaped speed coil holder was first used on 1905 (maybe late '04) pancakes.īelow: Here's what is almost certain proof that this pancake was made in 1905. Right: A cardboard switch cover was used starting on the 1905 model pancakes.
#VINTAGE GE FAN SERIAL NUMBERS SERIAL NUMBER#
The serial number 230058 is well into the 1905 year and the tag is riveted to the steel band used on post-early 1904 pancakes. Left: The motor tag is of the 1905 and later style with no FORM letter.
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