Lot 93: JOSEPH SINEL

PROPERTY OF A POUND RIDGE, NEW YORK COLLECTION

"STEP ON IT" SCALE

measurements note
77 x 25 1/4 x 15 1/8 in. (195.6 x 64.1 x 38.4 cm)

manufactured by International Ticket Scale Corporation, New York

ca. 1930s

designed 1929

with firm's marks

painted steel, cast iron, polished stainless steel, nickel-plated brass, glass and rubber

PROVENANCE

Radio City Music Hall, New York
John Axelrod, Boston
Private New York Collection
Sotheby's New York, December 13, 2003, lot 597

LITERATURE

Dan Klein, All Color Book of Art Deco, London, 1974, p. 32 (for a period photograph of the model installed at Radio City Music Hall)
R. L. Leonard and C. A. Glassgold, eds., Modern American Design: By the American Union of Decorative Artists and Craftsmen, New York, 1992, p. 85 (reprint of the 1931 Annual of American Design)
Wendy Kaplan, ed., Designing Modernity: The Arts of Reform and Persuasion 1885-1945, London, 1995, p. 330