Vintage Otis Elevator Company Emblem. Nonmagnetic and look bronze or brass.
Some fun reading about this famous company from the great Wikipedia at bottom!
Otis company is 6 3/8″ wide, 1″ tall and close to 1/8″ thickness. Weigh is close to 3 oz. Has nice even patina showing good age, few rub marks and showing bronze color through textured black paint. Pretty clean with average wear for age with its stains, scuffs, scratches, dings nice Patina and still looks great! Backside is numbered what looks like 3844. Cool historic find.
What makes this one unusual is they no damage around holes for clean mounting.
Guessing made early 1900’s. Cool Old Otis Elevator Company Sign Emblem or Plaque!!
The booming elevator market
In 1852 Elisha Otis invented the safety elevator, which automatically comes to a halt if the hoisting rope breaks. After a demonstration at the 1853 New York World’s Fair, the elevator industry established credibility.
Otis elevator in Glasgow, Scotland, imported from the U.S. in 1856 for Gardner’s Warehouse, the oldest cast-iron fronted building in the British Isles.
The Otis Elevator Company was founded in Yonkers, New York, in 1853 by Elisha Otis. When Elisha died in 1861, his sons Charles and Norton formed a partnership and continued the business. During the American Civil War, their elevators were in high demand due to the shipment of war materials. Businesses throughout the United States purchased them. In 1864, with the partnership of J.M. Alvord, the company became known as Otis Brothers & Co. In 1867, Otis opened a factory in Yonkers, New York, the city where the company was founded.
In 1925, the world’s first fully automatic elevator, Collective Control, was introduced. In 1931, the company installed the world’s first double-deck elevator in New York City.
Otis opened a factory in Bloomington, Indiana, in 1965.
Fayette S. Dunn became president of the company in 1964, succeeding the late Percy Douglas.
