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Wagner Elevator Call Button, Antique Bronze Panel Building Hardware

$1200.95 SOLD

  • Wagner Manufacturing Company
  • Wagner P-12-D
  • Elevator Call Button
  • Bronze Brass
  • 1930s
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Wagner P-12-D Elevator Call Button, Antique Bronze or Brass Building Hardware Panel, Weight is hair over 3 pounds. What makes this cool is the glass push call buttons! Also very unusual to find the original contacts still present. Great art deco art nouveau look!!

This looks and feels bronze but could be brass and nonmagnetic. Numbered P-16-D on reverse with name Wagner. Attributing to Adam Wagner and found some fun reading at bottom of page on his once famous company.

Plate measures 9 1/2″ tall, 5 3/4″ wide and 3//8″ thick no counting contacts. Again heavy 3 pounds. Has its nicks, scratches, scuffs, stains, tarnishing verdigris, paint splatter, dings, nice Patina showing good age and still looks Awesome!

Cool find, don’t see to many Wagner calls especially with glass buttons and contacts with housing. As in found condition with original Patina. Has its wear but has not been polished to death and all shined scuffed and fine scratched up. Cool historic find worthy of a proper finish restoration or leave original as found.

Guessing made early 1930s. Cool Old Wagner Elevator Company Call Button!! Shipping for lower 48 states.

Please check pictures for description and condition. Have the more call buttons listed separately.

Shipping prices are for the lower 48 states only. Contact us first before purchasing if you are outside the lower 48 states for shipping cost, for example Hawaii, Alaska or Puerto Rico. Also all excessive shipping cost will be refunded.

In 1904, Adam Wagner founded the Wagner Manufacturing Company in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Originally a hardware firm, it began by producing a varied catalog that included children’s snow sleds, coaster wagons, hay rack fixtures, and various types of door hardware. Over the following decades, the company significantly expanded its reach, consolidating with the Boardman Elevator Control of Chicago in 1930 to increase annual revenues to $1 million and becoming a key supplier of elevator equipment to major clients like Otis Elevator and Westinghouse. The company remained a family-owned staple of Cedar Falls until 1964, when it was acquired by the Chamberlain Corporation and operations were moved to Waterloo, Iowa. In 1972, Chamberlain sold the door division to the Clopay Corporation, and by 1985, the original Wagner entity had officially dissolved.