4 Antique Cast Brass Ornate Wall Vents Register Selby Shoes Portsmouth Ohio ART

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OUTSTANDING 4 Huge Ornate Antique Cast Brass Ornate Wall Vents Registers from Selby Shoe Company Portsmouth, Ohio. From Circa. 1900 Selby Shoe Company Portsmouth Ohio.  These are heavy cast brass. Ornate, see close up pics. I just bought these at a Selby estate auction. Have been in the Selby home.
These are in  excellent condition. These are exceptional pieces.  A rare opportunity to acquire 4 great architectural pieces. Many uses.  reuse as a vent, wall register, make a table, or  wall  decoration. I apologize about the pictures. I can send addition ones if requested. I see no breaks, chips or missing pieces. Good and solid. 1 having some very minor corrosion and 1 with a larger area. See pictures. Not bad.
I can send many more pictures if needed.
Measures roughly Large 2 measure 23" W x 67" H x 3/8" Deep    and smaller ones measure 19 1/4" W x 48" H x 3/8" D.  I am estimating weight as I have no scales. Large ones 85 pounds and small ones 50 pounds. That would be 270 pounds. Large ones could be more.
These are in good condition.  I see no breaks, chips or missing pieces. Good and solid. 1 having some very minor corrosion and 1 with a larger area. See pictures. Not bad .
Portsmouth Ohio was  considered the " Shoe Capital of the World " at the turn of the century.  Please read more about the Selby family and more. I have them listed as pick up only. I have no problem with holding them for a month or two until one can pick them up or arrange to have them picked up. Please note: a semi truck can not make it up to my building. A box truck or pick up is oaky.
Shoe Capital of the World: Portsmouth, OH and the Importance of the Shoe Industry
Selby Shoe ad from the Boot and Shoe Recorder
Once known as the, “Shoe Capital of the World,” the town of Portsmouth, Ohio, located along the Ohio river, has a steep and storied history grounded in the shoe industry. This history starts during the August of 1850, when Robert Bell organized what would come to be known as the Portsmouth Shoe Manufacturing Company. Fast forward to 1877, and Drew Irving and Company is founded that January. The factory would go on to become the famous Selby Shoe Company. A number of other shoe factories (including the focus of this project, Williams, which will be discussed in the
next post
) also popped up during the era, leading to Portsmouth’s reputation atop the shoe industry. The town was featured in the October 25, 1911 edition of the
Boot and Shoe Recorder
, where the following is written:
Portsmouth has the reputation of turning out the largest number of manufactured shoes of any city of equal population. There are six factories in Portsmouth with a capacity of 20,000 pairs of shoes per day, with a steady output of approximately 15,000 pairs per day. Fully 4,000 people are given employment in the shoe industry alone. The amount of leather used in the manufacture of shoes adds further to the industry of the city itself, and it is said that about one million two hundred thousand hides, large and small, are used yearly. The cartons for the shoes are manufactured right in Portsmouth. It is said that approximately ,000 (approximately 1,506 in today’s value) per day is distributed throughout the section covered by Portsmouth by the shoe factory operating there in wages, exclusively of the vast amounts paid out for incidental expenses. The total value of the product of Portsmouth shoe factories is given by its Commercial Association as ,000,000 (approx. 6,054,242) per year.
Unfortunately, this success was not sustainable. With the 1976
closure of Williams Manufacturing Company
, the town’s shoe industry would basically cease to exist. This brings about the question, “What happened?” Well, that is up for debate. Some argue that the unionization of the industry is what caused the failure. Through studying Williams, it is clear that this is not the case. Instead, the importation of cheaper, foreign shoes made it impossible for local companies to compete. Therefore, regardless of what had happened with unionization, it was inevitable that importation would eventually price these factories into closure.
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