Vintage Syroco Wood Shelf - Burnished Gold Wood Shelf - Syracuse Ornamental Company Wall & Home Decor Circa 1960s

Great Syroco wall shelf that is a great burnished gold color. It is made is Syroco wood - see NOTE below about Syroco wood.

The single shelf is a classic design with a notch on the top that a plate edge would sit on to keep it in place. There are decorative so embellishments at the bottom.

The shelf has the oval shape of the original Syroco sticker still on the back. There are two holes on either side and one square loop to be used for hanging on the shelf back.

Measures 10 1/2” wide on the top shelf. It is 10” long. The shelf is 5 1/4” deep.

In nice vintage condition with no chips or cracks. Light scratching and wear consistent with age which is circa 1960s.

NOTE:
The Syracuse Ornamental Company, known as Syroco, was an American manufacturing company based in Syracuse, New York. They were best known for their molded wood-pulp products that resembled hand-carving.

Founded in Syracuse, New York in 1890 by immigrant Adolph Holstein, the Syracuse Ornamental Company (Syroco) specialized in decorative wood carving, especially for the local residential market. Products included fireplace mantelpieces and other types of interior decoration popular in late Victorian homes. To meet increasing market demand and sales opportunities Holstein developed a material looked and felt like wood but that which could be shaped, allowing multiple pieces to be produced through a molding process. The new product, which combined wood pulp brought from the Adirondacks with flour as a binder and other materials to give it strength, was extruded and then cut to fit compression molds, which had were made from original carvings in real wood.



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