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Thread Number: 8422
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| Post# 93569 3/15/2010 at 19:13 (5,149 days old) by kenkart () | ||
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Very rare c4...around 1958 I think 
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| Post# 93570 , Reply# 1 3/15/2010 at 19:14 (5,149 days old) by kenkart () | ||
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pix I about shouted when I saw this 
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| Post# 93571 , Reply# 2 3/15/2010 at 19:15 (5,149 days old) by kenkart () | ||
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rare bird I have never seen one of these before 
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| Post# 93572 , Reply# 3 3/15/2010 at 19:16 (5,149 days old) by kenkart () | ||
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no dolly or... uphostery tool ,but maybe ill find one. | ||
| Post# 93574 , Reply# 4 3/15/2010 at 19:18 (5,149 days old) by electrolux~137 () | ||
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Hi Hans, what about this model makes it rare? The color combination? I think I have a color ad for this model -- I've seen the ad somewhere, at any rate-- | ||
| Post# 93576 , Reply# 5 3/15/2010 at 19:22 (5,149 days old) by kenkart () | ||
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Dont know but!!! Have you ever seen one, im 44 and this is the ONLY one I have ever seen...please post the ad...I would love to see it | ||
| Post# 93577 , Reply# 6 3/15/2010 at 19:31 (5,149 days old) by electrolux~137 () | ||
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I am going through my sweeper archives this week and if I come across the ad I'll post it. | ||
| Post# 93591 , Reply# 7 3/15/2010 at 21:10 (5,149 days old) by hygiene903 (Galion, OH) | ||
I Think It May Be Rare, Too!
I'm no expert on GE, but I don't think I've ever seen one in that color combination. Most of the ones I've seen are lighter pink upper and darker pink lower like my VIIC3, some with painted swiveltop and some polished, but yours looks like beige and red to me. But regardless of whether or not it's rare, it's a nice machine, and powerful, too! They're also a lot quieter than later models. Jeff | ||
| Post# 93598 , Reply# 8 3/15/2010 at 21:32 (5,149 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 93599 , Reply# 9 3/15/2010 at 21:40 (5,149 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 93603 , Reply# 10 3/15/2010 at 22:01 (5,149 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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I could be slightly off on dates but the material I have on hand supports these estimates. The C3 Roll-Around with the old-style squarish tools and flip-over floortool arrived in blushing two-tone pink with a polished aluminum swivel-top around 1955. By 1956 the swivel-top was painted pink as well (no doubt a cost-saving measure) Over the ensuing pink years various sections of the 3 part C body were done in light and dark pink combinations - probably to differentiate years for the Bridge Club Gossipers who tended to rank 'newness' among 'friends'. My C3 with earlier plainer pink crevicetool and flip-over 2-in-1, which nests perfectly in the depression and yoke of the caster base. The cloth-weave hose has a definitely darker pink tracer dash against a pale pinkish background, now quite faded. 
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| Post# 93606 , Reply# 11 3/15/2010 at 22:08 (5,149 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 93610 , Reply# 12 3/15/2010 at 22:18 (5,149 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 93629 , Reply# 13 3/16/2010 at 00:44 (5,149 days old) by hygiene903 (Galion, OH) | ||
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Yours Looks Just Like Mine! | ||
| Post# 93632 , Reply# 14 3/16/2010 at 01:58 (5,149 days old) by kenmore81 (Warwick, RI) | ||
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| Post# 93640 , Reply# 15 3/16/2010 at 06:32 (5,148 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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Hi Hans. I didn't mean to suggest you didn't know all this already, just helping confirm the date of your C4. I find these minute detail changes fascinating. Your entire collection is absolutely 'drool-worthy'. Here's what I mean bout the subtle change to GE's tools design, which happened between the first concave Roll-Easy R1 and the narrower convex barreled version two V12-R1... Dave 
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| Post# 93707 , Reply# 17 3/16/2010 at 17:17 (5,148 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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I don't know where I found the alleged 1961 catalog ad showing the R1 version 3 and the C4 but it appears to be an American Department Store Catalog page exerpt, and the more I study the copyright line the more it looks like 1957 - because it could not possibly be 1967. :-) This is as sharp a picture as I can get from the source pixels. Dave 
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| Post# 93715 , Reply# 18 3/16/2010 at 18:51 (5,148 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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