Important Design

Important Design

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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
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)