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Post by Matthew on Apr 10, 2004 0:04:45 GMT -5
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Post by Andrew G. on Apr 10, 2004 9:30:46 GMT -5
damn, too many good fans. I have never seen something like this since the bunch of SMC fans. I've been looking for a fasco and anything else like that.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2004 12:34:52 GMT -5
Definitely the biggest pile of fans I've seen on eBay. I love those Charlestons, and those Ritzes are incrediably cool. Too bad they're somewhat broken from being piled up like that.
However the only way it'd be practical to bid is if you could pick them up in person. Think of the shipping! I'd only do that if it were Taras.
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Post by SMILY on Apr 10, 2004 14:07:24 GMT -5
I have never seen such nice Ritz fans!!! ;D Iv'e seen lots of Four-blade Charelstons somewhere, I just can't remember where. Wonder what happened to the original blade brackets on the Fasco Charelstons??? Anybody know???
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2004 14:14:33 GMT -5
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Post by Farah on Apr 11, 2004 15:01:05 GMT -5
Wow those are the coolest looking fans I've ever seen. They lasted a pretty long time.
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Post by organist89 on Apr 11, 2004 19:58:29 GMT -5
Wow those are the coolest looking fans I've ever seen. They lasted a pretty long time. Ah, yoing'un...lemme break you in The FASCO Charleston (seen towards the right in that picture--it's the only one that's non-ornate--it has two rows of thin vent holes) was one of the best fans ever made. Every fan FASCO made, for that matter, totally kicked a$$. FASCO is a motor company (they no longer make ceiling fans--www.fasco.com), and they made the motor in that Charleston--it is a copy of Emerson's K55 motor. The rest of the fans are Ritzes. Ritz fans were one of the first imported, Asian-made fans. They had a cast-iron spinner motor, weighing about 40 lbs. They just keep going and going and going...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2004 22:06:09 GMT -5
Ah, yoing'un...lemme break you in Um, she's five years older than you. The FASCO Charleston (seen towards the right in that picture--it's the only one that's non-ornate--it has two rows of thin vent holes) was one of the best fans ever made. Every fan FASCO made, for that matter, totally kicked a$$. FASCO is a motor company (they no longer make ceiling fans--www.fasco.com), and they made the motor in that Charleston--it is a copy of Emerson's K55 motor. The rest of the fans are Ritzes. Ritz fans were one of the first imported, Asian-made fans. They had a cast-iron spinner motor, weighing about 40 lbs. They just keep going and going and going... The rest of the information is more or less correct, althought it's mostly embellishments on things I've told you Like Perrey says, when you dont actually learn something on your own, credit the source Yes I'm an ass too sometimes arent I.
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Post by Andrew G. on Apr 17, 2004 17:23:08 GMT -5
I saw about 14 of those ornate ritzes at a hotel I was at for a wedding. There were 5 antique brass, 5 polished brass, and 3 42'' white/brass fans. I also saw 2 42'' summer breeze fans over the front desk. Whoever gets those ritzes and the FASCO, I'd like to get one of the ritz fans. If not, oh well.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2004 23:59:29 GMT -5
I saw about 14 of those ornate ritzes at a hotel I was at for a wedding. There were 5 antique brass, 5 polished brass, and 3 42'' white/brass fans. I also saw 2 42'' summer breeze fans over the front desk. Whoever gets those ritzes and the FASCO, I'd like to get one of the ritz fans. If not, oh well. Really, the first Ritz I saw was at a hotel too, in the Restaurant. They had them 42? I've never seen a 42" Ritz fan. Anyhow there's a picture posted of the one I saw in the group. None of us (collectors) bid on those Ritz fans. The guy who won them is opening a nighclub and wants some fans.
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Post by Andrew G. on Apr 18, 2004 8:41:41 GMT -5
None of us (collectors) bid on those Ritz fans. The guy who won them is opening a nighclub and wants some fans. That figures
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Post by organist89 on Apr 18, 2004 13:19:04 GMT -5
Really, the first Ritz I saw was at a hotel too, in the Restaurant. They had them 42? I've never seen a 42" Ritz fan. I would cite something that you told me: 42" fans are a recent invention. Those Ritzes are 60s.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2004 20:18:19 GMT -5
I would cite something that you told me: 42" fans are a recent invention. Those Ritzes are 60s. Both of those things are assumptions, not fact. I *believe* 42" fans are a recent thing, and I was told(buy the guy I bought my first Ritz from) that he purchased it in the 60s . . . the Ritz company supposedly went out of business in the early 80s (confirmed by Perrey's research). Easy to put shorter blades on a larger fan. Andrew, so what *were* those 42" fans you saw?
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Post by Andrew G. on Apr 19, 2004 14:29:41 GMT -5
Both of those things are assumptions, not fact. I *believe* 42" fans are a recent thing, and I was told(buy the guy I bought my first Ritz from) that he purchased it in the 60s . . . the Ritz company supposedly went out of business in the early 80s (confirmed by Perrey's research). Easy to put shorter blades on a larger fan. Andrew, so what *were* those 42" fans you saw? They looked exactly like the 52'' fans I saw, they were both j-hook, variable speed and ornate. I saw these fans over four years ago so some of the info i have might be a little vague.
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Post by Andrew G. on Apr 19, 2004 14:30:06 GMT -5
Both of those things are assumptions, not fact. I *believe* 42" fans are a recent thing, and I was told(buy the guy I bought my first Ritz from) that he purchased it in the 60s . . . the Ritz company supposedly went out of business in the early 80s (confirmed by Perrey's research). Easy to put shorter blades on a larger fan. Andrew, so what *were* those 42" fans you saw? They looked exactly like the 52'' fans I saw, they were both j-hook, variable speed and ornate. I saw these fans over four years ago so some of the info i have might be a little vague.
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