[HistoryGuy]

Any help would be appreciated. I'm trying to pin down an approximate date for this:

 

[Majewski]

19 minutes ago.

 

[Almost Retired]

probably right after knob and tube started
just a guess

one clue might be that it says Brooklyn 11 NY
find out when that designation went away and you will know its older than that

 

[yankeejoe1141]

Is that one for sale too?

 

[460 Delta]

40’s maybe into the early 50’s. If it’s yours you need to do some updates because those 30 amp Edison base fuses will make your house become history @HistoryGuy.

 

[yankeejoe1141]

40’s maybe into the early 50’s. If it’s yours you need to do some updates because those 30 amp Edison base fuses will make your house become history @HistoryGuy.

#historyhouse lol

 

[SWDweller]

To think that was state of the art

 

[460 Delta]

#historyhouse lol

#Blazeofglory

 

[yankeejoe1141]

#Blazeofglory

Lol!

 

[wcord]

Way before any of us were born.

 

[backstay]

40’s maybe into the early 50’s. If it’s yours you need to do some updates because those 30 amp Edison base fuses will make your house become history @HistoryGuy.

Could have bigger wire in the walls.

 

[dspiffy]

Looks 1940s to me.

 

[Grounded-B]

probably right after knob and tube started
just a guess

one clue might be that it says Brooklyn 11 NY
find out when that designation went away and you will know its older than that

2 digit "postal zones", started in 1943

5 digit "Zip codes" started in 1963

 

[wiz1997]

Any patent numbers found?
Might give you an idea of when the device was first engineered.

 

[dspiffy]

At least in my area, these started being phased out in the 1950s in favor of breakers.

I lived in an apartment building built in 1940 that had this exact panel if I remember correctly.

My parents neighborhood was built in the 1950s. The earliest house on the block was built 1950, the rest were build 1952-1955 IIRC. Every single house in the neighorhood that I've been in had a Federal Pacific panel. Federal Pacific filed their first patent in 1949. My parents house had the FPE panel but fuses for the main/disconnect. I replaced the panel decades ago and they upgraded to solar in the past decade but I think the original 1952 fused disconnect is still there.

 

[460 Delta]

Could have bigger wire in the walls.

Could but not likely.

 

[MotoGP1199]

I would date it to about 80 BC. You know..... BC (Before Covid). So around 1942 ish.

 

[wiz1997]

I enjoy solving puzzles, so spent a little time looking for your panel.

Still a puzzle.

 

[CoreyOnTheBrink]

I’ve seen these referenced several times in ancient wisdom literature.

 

[LGLS]

Looks like my outdoor 3r disconnect, 100 a fuses for the main, 60 for the receptacle (why they wanted a 60a 240v receptacle outside I dunno.)