VTG CHROME RETRO ART DECO SUNBEAM TOASTER T-20~WORKS!
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Up for is a retro art deco style Sunbeam T-20 toaster in good condition. Here is some information from the website "Evolution of the T-20". The Sunbeam Model T-20 appeared on the market in the late 1940s and, although it underwent some minor design changes and retoolings, it remained in Sunbeam's product line until 1997.Engineered by Ludvik Koci with the design supervised by Ivar Jepson and styled by Robert D. Budlong, the T-20 was the first fully automatic toaster. An ad from 1954 states, "Automatic Beyond Belief! All you do is drop in the bread ... Bread lowers itself automatically, no levers to push ... Toast raises itself silently, without popping or banging." In a 1949 Consumer's Union test of toasters, they note the novel design, "The weight of the bread closes an electrical contact; this turns on the current and the bread slice is automatically lowered...". And the T-20 was one of the first toasters to use a bi-metallic, heat-sensitive device to guage the temperature of the bread slice rather than the temperature of the toaster. This is supposed to prevent the bread from being able to burn. *The toaster I am selling is marked T-20 on the bottom. The toaster works beautifully as you can see in the pictures. The chrome is scratched and scuffed in places, but mirror shiny as well. The cloth covered cord is in excellent and
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