Is this vacuum rare?

[dustette]

This is an early 1900s Feeny model G.....I have not seen very many of these cleaners around...are they rare?

 

[myhooverco]

Dustette...

This one looks very familiar. I think that there is one on display at the Hoover Historical Center in North Canton. I am not sure if it is the same name though. I would think that any non electric machine would be fairly rare especially one of this vintage. Where did you find it?

--Tom

 

[dustette]

Well my cousin got me this one.....he owns an antique shop.......And i have been to the Hoover historical center...i go there every year...and i did see one there like mine..but i wasn't sure if it was rare.

 

[sfovacman]

Feeney hand pump antique vacuum

Hand pump vacuums like the Feeney that you have often turn up in antique shops. Although I don't have a Feeney, I have several similar ones, including a Golden Rod that I got in 1975 in an antique shop in Madison, KS.

Most of these seem to sell for $40.00 to $65.00 or so.

The most knowledgable person I know of about primitive machines is Bob Kautzman in Alburtis, PA. He has a website of www.vachunter.com.

I believe Alex Taber, a co-founder of the VCCC, has a number of non-electric machines also and is quite knowledgable about them.

Jim Kirby, Kansas

 

[dustette]

Thanks!

I know a little more about this vacuum now.