Vintage Syroco Wood Shelf - Reddish Brown Wood Shelf - Syracuse Ornamental Company Wall & Home Decor Circa 1960s

Great Syroco wall shelves that are a great mahogany color with a slight gray overtone here and there. The reddish brown 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 ornate curled and round embellishments at the bottom and under the arc shaped shelf. There are two looped figure 8 designs that cross at the center and give this shelf its great ornate look. The very bottom ends have a three leafed design.

The shelf has the most of the original Syroco sticker still on the back. There are two holes on either side to be used for hanging on the shelf back.

Measures 9" in length. About 9" wide and 4 1/4" in depth.

In very good 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.