A Stylish & Operational Art Deco Period Beanwy Electric Ltd Electric Desk Fan c.1935 sub-Curios Interior window shutters

Interior window shutters

though importantly the individual fingers all remain in tact

Fashioned on the cusp of the Victorian and Edwardian periods

Many blocks of this kind would have been destroyed when the new printing techniques were introduced though perhaps these blocks were originally made as examples of the different models of electroliers that a certain firm in the Edwardian period was offering to new clients

and this fine example

A Stylish & Operational Art Deco Period Beanwy Electric Ltd Electric Desk Fan c.1935 sub-Curios Interior window shuttersOrigin: English Period: Early Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1930 35 Height: 17. 75 inches Width: 13. 25 inches (the whole) or 12 inches (the blades) Depth: 8. 5 inches Surviving from the second quarter of the twentieth century the chrome, lacquered cast aluminium and enamel British made B&Y desk fan having a long flex and three pin British plug, the mechanism with induction motor, adjustable cradle and four twelve inch diameter