A vintage box style window fan by Hunter. The four blades are rounded on the ends and slightly overlap each other, set at an angle; they are behind a wire grill of concentric circles attached to a tan metal body. It has a two-prong plug and comes with its original manual. Hunter Zephair, serial CS 178-51.

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I recently re-discovered an old Hunter Zephair oscillating desk fan in the attic. Model 250 C-16, Serial number P560750. Not sure how old this is. At least 1950 if not earlier, I'm guessing. Steel spider, aluminum overlapping blades. Fan runs okay in all three speeds, but the blade itself seems to be out of balance.
Hunter, Division of Robbins & Myers, Inc. 'The Original' ceiling fan CAT. 22272-004 from the year 1980, also listed as model number 22272. The finish is chestnut brown and brass. This ceiling fan has a two speed pull switch.
Shown here is an Emerson 29646, a brass-blade 12-inch fan. This fan was made in the later 1920's, around 1927 or 1928. With a serial number prefixed by a T, it is one of the last serial-numbered Emerson fans. Fans made after they stopped stamping serial numbers around.
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Welcome to the Fan Page. This page is mostly a photo gallery of my collection of antique oscillating and fixed table fans along with my commentary about them. Many of the 12' and 16' fans in my collection are actually used quite a bit in the summer months from May-September, and as such, I don't readily consider myself a collector of antique fans per se. I do refuse to buy new fans because of their poor quality and styling. On the other hand, I do have quite a few more fans than would really be required for the summer season, and I have bought fans that do not work simply to have them.

None of the fans you will see here have been restored. I clean them, at the very least, but to the many that run I oil them, and make electrical repairs if needed, and replaced the base felt if needed, so they may be used.

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This little 8' oscillating fan, 'Trail Blazer', was made by the AC Gilbert Co., of Erector Set fame. It was made in the early 1920's and is single speed.

Shown here is an Emerson 26646, which was made from 1919 to 1922. This is the non-oscillating companion fan to the Emerson 27-series fans made during the same time period. The 5-digit Emerson type or model numbers encode information about the fan. The 26 is the series, 6 for power line frequency in tens of cycles per second, 4 for the number of blades, and 6 for the blade radius in inches. This fan uses Emerson's unique hollow stationary shaft single bearing. The fan blade hub screws onto the rotor, which rotates on this hollow shaft, which is filled with oil from the single oil port on the fan's back. The unique blades on this fan are called Parker blades, after Herbert L Parker, who invented them. They were first patented in 1899,

This fan is an Emerson 27666, which was made from 1919 to 1922. It is a 12-inch fan and it has six blades instead of the usual four. In the days before the overlapping blade was developed, fan companies made fans quiet by decreasing the speed by a third while adding 50% more blades. Thus, instead of four blades at 1725 RPM, the fan would have six blades s

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