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Thread Number: 38993
/ Tag: Pre-1950 Vacuum Cleaners
Kirby Utility Model H |
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| Post# 413821 , Reply# 1 9/15/2019 at 09:25 (1,683 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah) | ||
Hi
It's documented. The reason you don't see many it was a prototype. The bag looks brand new. I'd dare say it was reproduced. It is a really sweet bag. I wonder if baldo made the bag. I know he likes making bags for older machines.
The value of this you will be told is how much someone will pay. Rare piece. Les | ||
| Post# 413823 , Reply# 2 9/15/2019 at 10:51 (1,683 days old) by Kirbyg6 (York) | ||
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| Post# 413845 , Reply# 3 9/15/2019 at 18:50 (1,683 days old) by DaveVac (Westlake, Ohio) | ||
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The bag I know the bag is reproduced because my wife made it... there was no bag when I bought it......owner said he has no idea what happened to it dave | ||
| Post# 413884 , Reply# 4 9/16/2019 at 02:08 (1,682 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah) | ||
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| Post# 413891 , Reply# 5 9/16/2019 at 09:29 (1,682 days old) by Dysonman1 (the county) | ||
Those machines were very much sold to the public. The nozzle moves up or down, depending if you want a blowing action or a suction action. Moth crystals are put in the little canister, The nozzle is placed on blowing, and the machine is put down on an article of clothing or furniture that you want to demoth. Of course, it is also a hand vacuum cleaner. They were first introduced to the market when the company was making the Scott and Fetzer sanitation system. When the “Kirby“ was brought out, the hand vac changed names, but continued to be produced until World War II.
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| Post# 413955 , Reply# 8 9/17/2019 at 19:16 (1,680 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah) | ||
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Dysonman
If anyone's word carries creedence it would be Tom's. His running and owning vacuum cleaner museum and being a published on vacuum cleaner history is unparalleled. I'd like proof but questioning his word even as brass and arragont as I am isn't advised.
Can you post a pic of the bag. That I'd like to see. I'm not being rude just blunt. No harm no foul. Les | ||
| Post# 414009 , Reply# 10 9/18/2019 at 23:52 (1,679 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah) | ||
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| Post# 414019 , Reply# 11 9/19/2019 at 11:07 (1,679 days old) by FantomFan (Rochester, New York) | ||
I had one of these... | ||
| Post# 414020 , Reply# 12 9/19/2019 at 11:42 (1,679 days old) by dysonman1 (the county) | ||
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Adam's Kirby Hand Vac
Adam's hand vac Kirby is one of two that I have seen in person. One of them was mine. Two decades ago, I traded it for a Rexair model A. Which I still have.
Mine was called the Vacuette Jr. Later models were called the Kirby Utility. The hand vac was produced before the 1935 model C Kirby, as they were selling them alongside the Vacuette Electric and the Scott & Fetzer Sanitation System. The old VCCC newsletters had an ad for it in one of them. The ad showed the nozzle sliding up and down, for suction or blowing through the nozzle. Air was sucked up through the bottom of the crystal chamber, over the moth crystals which turned them into a gas, and out through the nozzle into a piece of overstuffed furniture. | ||
| Post# 414273 , Reply# 13 9/26/2019 at 14:17 (1,672 days old) by Adambomb (Undisclosed ) | ||
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Hello! Just thought I'd share a picture of mine.
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| Post# 414302 , Reply# 15 9/27/2019 at 14:12 (1,671 days old) by kirby519 (Wisconsin) | ||
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Nice find. It is the Holy grail of Kirby's. A very Rare bird indeed. | ||
| Post# 414303 , Reply# 16 9/27/2019 at 14:13 (1,671 days old) by kirby519 (Wisconsin) | ||
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Can you get some pictures to share with us of the guts of the machine I E the under side, opening where the fan is ETC? | ||
| Post# 414429 , Reply# 18 9/29/2019 at 20:10 (1,668 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah) | ||
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Hey
Hey it look like Adam has a black Kirby bag. The bag looks similar to one I'm showing.
Your Kirby bag is sweet. If you have any eureka or Royal f&g bags the ring that holds the bag on should fit. Les
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| Post# 416387 , Reply# 20 11/23/2019 at 09:26 (1,614 days old) by dysonman1 (the county) | ||
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| Post# 416390 , Reply# 21 11/23/2019 at 09:58 (1,614 days old) by Nomad121 (Wisconsin) | ||
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It's definatly a "utility". Just talked to someone at Kirby they told me there was no such model and that they never built a handheld. Obviously they don't know their Kirby history. Is there a market for this kind of item? | ||
| Post# 416393 , Reply# 22 11/23/2019 at 11:36 (1,614 days old) by jrdavis (oklahoma) | ||
now thats talent | ||
| Post# 416456 , Reply# 24 11/25/2019 at 00:28 (1,612 days old) by jrdavis (oklahoma) | ||
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maybe
someday i hope to find one to go with this-to make a matching set. i wanted to make a new bag for this when i restored it but cant figure out the right material with the pattern it has and i'm not too good at logo reproducing. it has the bag that came on it so its kinda faded(pic 2)
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| Post# 416473 , Reply# 26 11/25/2019 at 10:56 (1,612 days old) by jrdavis (oklahoma) | ||
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thats what i did | ||
Post# 463793 , Reply# 27 6/11/2023 at 21:36 (317 days old) by odavid123  (Los Angeles ca ) |
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Kirby Utility Model H 1934 
Yes I agree it was sold 1934 /1940 alongside C and R model Kirby’s . ( retail and door to door )
I have it in a box but no manual , I want to find the damn manual lol I’m cleaning it up so I will post more detailed pictures in a week or so . Does anybody here have the instruction manual to share ?
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| Post# 463794 , Reply# 28 6/11/2023 at 22:45 (317 days old) by Hoover300 (Kentucky) | ||
Where do you find these things??
Side note, not my pic, but did you know you could get a handle for these?
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Post# 463795 , Reply# 29 6/11/2023 at 23:06 (317 days old) by odavid123 (Los Angeles ca ) |
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Post# 463801 , Reply# 30 6/12/2023 at 07:43 (317 days old) by VacMadMan (Pueblo Co.) |
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very nice | ||
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Post# 463807 , Reply# 31 6/12/2023 at 12:16 (317 days old) by odavid123 (Los Angeles ca ) |
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