We're getting ready to move, and going through boxes from the basement, many of which haven't been opened the entire time we've lived in this house (about 12 years). We really want a lot of it to not bother following us into decades more taking up storage space. I don't remember where this badge came from, or whether it came from anywhere that had significance to me. I know from Googling that there was the Kalamazoo Manufacturing Company which made railcars; Gibson had a Kalamazoo brand of guitars, amps, etc (this seems up my alley, but I can't find any pics of a Kalamazoo amp or guitar with a similar badge); there seems to be a machine tool Kalamazoo connection, possibly Atlas/Clausing related... But nothing remotely definitive.
In any case, we were about to chuck it during our bloodless, ruthless, cold-hearted cull, but were both stopped short wondering what it was from. If it's got a neat connection, maybe it needs to move to the new house's garage (when it exists).
3.5" floppy for scale. At this point I'm convinced it'll take GRM about ten minutes, plus maybe a next-day rollover for being ten o'clock on the west coast.
Rolled up my sleeves and found this labeled as "lot of twelve vintage furnace emblems". Sure looks like it on the top left. :Shrug:
In reply to Ethnic Food-Wrap Aficionado :
15 minutes....you're slipping.
I hear the market for furnace emblems is really heating up. While market values tend to cool over the summer, they are seasonal and tend to get hot again in the winter.
SVreX
MegaDork
1/3/19 8:11 a.m.
It would make a good hood emblem.
SVreX
MegaDork
1/3/19 8:49 a.m.
Steve (M1sandman) needs this for a hood ornament for Tetanus, his rat rod Miata pickup truck:
Link to build thread
My first guess was refrigerator. Never thought furnace.
Ethnic Food-Wrap Aficionado said:
Rolled up my sleeves and found this labeled as "lot of twelve vintage furnace emblems". Sure looks like it on the top left. :Shrug:
At one time, General Motors built everything, didn't they? Delco-Heat...
That is a cool logo. I have a logo plate from a Powermaster boiler hanging on the wall in my shop. It's 1/8" thick aluminum, about 18" long and 8" high, with raised script letters reading "Powermaster" painted red. Pretty amazing for a piece of hvac equipment.
mtn
MegaDork
1/3/19 10:22 a.m.
Streetwiseguy said:
Ethnic Food-Wrap Aficionado said:
Rolled up my sleeves and found this labeled as "lot of twelve vintage furnace emblems". Sure looks like it on the top left. :Shrug:
At one time, General Motors built everything, didn't they? Delco-Heat...
We had a Frigidaire fridge that was labeled clearly as a General Motors product at my grandparents lake house. Lived in the garage for probably 35 years, and it was probably 20 years old when it moved to the garage. We only had it plugged in in the summer, but damn was that thing cool. And cold too.
I always just thought it was a "Frigidaire", one word said quickly, with the "dare" sound. Never realized that it meant Frigid Air.
In reply to Ethnic Food-Wrap Aficionado :
Sure does! Nice work, and thank you!
SVreX said:
Steve (M1sandman) needs this for a hood ornament for Tetanus, his rat rod Miata pickup truck:
Link to build thread
It'd be neat if it had an actual use. I assume FMV for something like this would be zero if it landed in his mailbox... Though I don't recall exactly where it came from, I'm sure I didn't pay anything for it.
...or the trunk of a mid-50s boat.
SVreX
MegaDork
1/4/19 9:05 a.m.
Ransom said:
SVreX said:
Steve (M1sandman) needs this for a hood ornament for Tetanus, his rat rod Miata pickup truck:
Link to build thread
It'd be neat if it had an actual use. I assume FMV for something like this would be zero if it landed in his mailbox... Though I don't recall exactly where it came from, I'm sure I didn't pay anything for it.
It would fit perfectly on the top edge of the Radio Flyer wagon radiator surround. 
