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Product sheet Streamliner Meatslicer, Model No. 195

Architonic-ID:  4103889
Designer:
Egmont Arens
Theodore Brookhart
Manufacturer:
Hobart Manufacturing Company,
Year: 1940
 
The model offered here is the original "Streamliner" meatslicer. Designed by Arens and Brookhart in 1940, the "Streamliner" was manufactured in 1941 as the model 195. It was the precursor to the model 410, which began production in 1944. The model 195 is noticeable for the word "Streamliner," engraved under the "Hobart" mark on both the front and back. The later Model 410 is marked only with the word "Hobart."

Aluminum, steel, rubber
13 x 21 x 173/4 in. (33 x 53.3 x 45.1 cm)

Literature:
J. Stewart Johnson, AMERICAN MODERN: 1925-1940, DESIGN FOR A NEW AGE, exh. cat., Metropolitian Museum of Art, NEW YORK, 2000, p. 134 for an illustration of model no. 410
Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton and Ghislaine Wood, ART DECO 1910-1939, LONDON, 2003, pp. 312 and 364 for an illustration of model no. 410
estimated value: 
3000-4000 US$
 
Auction: 
20-21st Century Design Sale

Sales date: 2004-06-10
location: New York
Lot number: 6
 
Auction House:
Phillips, de Pury & Company
Address:

Phillips, de Pury & Company


United States

Product overview 
 
 
Designer:
Egmont H. Arens

Egmont H. Arens


Product overview 
 
 
Designer:

Theodore Brookhart


Product overview