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To start the day we present a wonderful collection of Medical and Scientific Instruments. This sale includes a large group of medical and dental items, a very important collection of calculators and slide rules, office items such as early check punches and registers and pre-1950 spy and surveillance equipment Among the many highlights are a previously unrecorded 19th c. Ohio-made "Kwik Calculator", "McFarlanes Calculating Cylinder", " Higgins Patent [mechanical] Calculating Triangle", "Wheilon Calculometer, "Bair-Fulton American Calculator”, a “Pascaline Calculator”, etc; as well as a number of 19th-century and 20th-century slide rules including several special purpose rules for artillery, brewing and more esoteric applications. The office machine section includes check protectors such as the Abbott Automatic Check Perforator, Lightning Check Punch and the United States Check Punch, etc., plus an early mechanical envelope sealer. Pencil sharpeners are also present and among them are a: "Perfect Pencil Pointer" and a" Jupiter Pencil Mechanical Sharpener". Among the medical lots are Civil War-era amputation sets, a scarce cased Ammoniaphone, a number of rare ophthalmic items including a "Dr. Culbertson's Prisoptometer", many unusual quack devices, porcelain enemas, Anesthesia, ENT and urological instruments. Finally, the surveillance equipment section contains an FBI "black bag" and a cased US Army 1944 Signal Corps listening device. Something for everyone who collects science and technology! In addition we have a single owner collection of Red Cross Posters, Postcards and Ephemera, Early Medical related Books and more.
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90 - Moke Lightning CalculatorPhilip Weiss Auctions
Very rare example of 'MOKE LIGHTNING CALULATOR . Early 20th c. pocket-watch-type two-side calulator : glass covered paper with metal frame. Di...
Bidding Has ConcludedEstimate : 300.00 - 400.00
Sold to floor .. for 424.80
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91 - Sexton's OmnimetrePhilip Weiss Auctions
Copyright 1897 by Thaddeus Norris.Cardboard with plastic cursor. 7.25" diam approx.
Bidding Has ConcludedEstimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to floor .. for 94.40
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92 - Aero Patent CalculatorPhilip Weiss Auctions
"AERO PATENT THE HAGUE, HOLLAND" Paper and plastic in self-contained metal case. C1930. Opened approx. 10.5" x 4.5"
Bidding Has ConcludedEstimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to floor .. for 76.70
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92A - Aero Patent Type CalculatorPhilip Weiss Auctions
Very similar to #92 but used for chemical production processes. Case stamped "MADE IN HOLLAND. Opened approx. 10.5" x 4.5"
Bidding Has ConcludedEstimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to floor .. for 153.40
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93 - Sabielny SummatorPhilip Weiss Auctions
C1921 Small nine-place adding machine with tooth-racked drive. Black metal in original case. Resembles RAPID and SUMMATOR
Bidding Has ConcludedEstimate : 300.00 - 400.00
Sold to floor .. for 118.00
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94 - B.U.G. CalculatorPhilip Weiss Auctions
in case. AKA "SUROT". German, c1920. similar to Rapid and Compator
Bidding Has ConcludedEstimate : 300.00 - 400.00
Sold to floor .. for 153.40
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