Important Design
Important Design
Property from a Private Michigan Collector
Opco Company
Ice Gun
Auction Closed
December 8, 09:48 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Michigan Collector
Opco Company
Ice Gun
circa 1935
together with the original packaging
manufactured by Opco Company, Los Angeles
enameled aluminum, chrome-plated steel, rubber
impressed THE ICE GUN MFD. BY OPCO OF LOS ANGELES and embossed PAT. PENDING; the original box with the manufacturer's paper label
6½ x 11 x 2¾ in. (16.5 x 27.9 x 7 cm)
Private Collection, San Diego
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Alastair Duncan, Modernism: Modernist Design 1880-1940, the Norwest Collection, Norwest Corporation, Minneapolis, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1998, p. 212
J. Stewart Johnson, American Modern 1925-1940: Design For A New Age, New York, 2000, p. 135 (for the model in yellow)
Wendy Kaplan, ed., California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 1, 2011-March 25, 2012, p. 68, fig. 2.7 (for an example of the model in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
J. Stewart Johnson, American Modern 1925-1940: Design For A New Age, New York, 2000, p. 135 (for the model in yellow)
Wendy Kaplan, ed., California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 1, 2011-March 25, 2012, p. 68, fig. 2.7 (for an example of the model in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art)