[GreenKeys] model 14 and 2B questions

[epvgk at limpoc.com]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 04:43:50PM -0400, Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC via GreenKeys wrote:
> I take it  that  some of the early tables really  were   wood  finish  no  
> paint then? 
>  
> Ed#

I've at least seen a M26 table with wood finish. (At Paul Cembura's)

>  
>  
> In a message dated 11/2/2016 1:30:37 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
> jhhaynes at earthlink.net writes:
> 
> I happen  to have a wooden Model 19 table.  Some Western Electric 
> distribution  house slathered some kind of gray-green paint on it.
> There are places where  the gray-green has peeled and underneath you
> can see nice mahogany  furniture finish.  Back in the 1930s they also
> hand-painted the metal  covers of the equipment to look like grained
> wood.  Which of course  looks perfectly phony, but I guess office people
> in that era liked wooden  office furniture.  And then came the era of
> metal office furniture and  they painted over the wood to make it look
> like metal.  Now of course  we can get vinyl contact paper that looks
> like wood so it's much cheaper to  fake wood finish.  Or leopard skin,
> or any other design that happens  to be popular.
> 
> 
> 

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