Got this very cheap at a yard sale yesterday.
Must weigh 25 pounds. Cool collectable or boat anchor>
found this. Close but smaller than the one I got.

CurtEastPoint
(19,673 posts)multigraincracker
(36,362 posts)I'll try another.
thanks
CurtEastPoint
(19,673 posts)you are trying to do situation 1, described here:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/103659987
multigraincracker
(36,362 posts)a little smaller. The one I have has about 3 more rows of numbers.
multigraincracker
(36,362 posts)Mine is not.
CurtEastPoint
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(36,362 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(155,216 posts)We used to have one of those!
We called it Black Bart.
My husband finally gave it away to a pre-school. The kids could not destroy it and they played endlessly with it.
multigraincracker
(36,362 posts)Cost me five bucks, scrape value.
LakeArenal
(29,949 posts)Since its not electric.
multigraincracker
(36,362 posts)I got my best ever deal on LP records at an Amish barn sale. Got 90 records all in mint to almost mint. Many were promotional, not for sale records. Some never opened or played, all from the early 80s. She a dollar apiece on them and I offered $40 for all. Go figure.
LakeArenal
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(36,362 posts)if they weren't going to turn around and sell it.
LakeArenal
(29,949 posts)One I gave to an Amish greenhouse. She stills uses it all the time.
The other I gave to a store that sold fabric for Amish clothes. I think she still uses that too.
multigraincracker
(36,362 posts)if it works well enough to use.
Sneederbunk
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(36,362 posts)Chainfire
(17,757 posts)Somewhere there will be collectors of mechanical adding machines. If you don't want to keep it for its "cool" value, you should be able to make a handsome profit on it. It would make a nice office prop for an accountant or bookkeeper.