Old SYROCOWOOD Scottie Dog Trinket Box, The Syracuse Ornamental Company (Syroco) Collection 1940’s. Showing Age. 5” X 4”, Lift Off Lid

VINTAGE SYROCOWOOD SCOTTIE DOG TRINKET OR PLAYING CARD BOX.

THE SYRACUSE ORNAMENTAL COMPANY (SYROCO) COLLECTION, CIRCA 1940’s

REMOVABLE LID WITH A FULL FIGURE SCOTTIE DOG AS A HANDLE.

BOX IS 5” LONG, 4” WIDE AND 2” DEEP

CONDITION: THE BOX IS INTACT, THE LID FITS PERFECTLY, SHOWING AGE, SOME OF OF THE ORIGINAL PAINT CHIPPED OFF. PLEASE LOOK AT ALL THE PICS.

ORIGINAL TAG STILL ATTACHED (PICTURED)

HISTORY:

Syracuse, NY, is where the SYRacuse Ornamental COmpany was originally founded and, in part, where the Syroco Company derived its name. The company was founded in 1890 by Austrian immigrant Adolph Holstein, and continued operating locally for over one hundred years. Its headquarters were located in downtown Syracuse in a factory on South Clinton Street, and, at the company’s height, it employed approximately 400 workers in the area.

1920s, Syroco began to shift from this more laborious craftsman style of production to one that was more practical and quickly became the company’s signature. In a 1923 catalog from our collections, the company is still advertising wood carvings and moldings for home decor, but denotes that Syroco is now producing a “90% wood product,” in hopes that their “rare and superior” product would “now [be] made practical.” The advertised “wood product” was composed out of a mixture of wood pulp from the Adirondacks, flour, and other binding agents, which were poured into moldings to create decorative home goods. The moldings resembled traditional wood-carved objects.

UNIQUE RARE COLLECTIBLE ITEM.

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