Oct 17, 2019 - Sale 2520

Sale 2520 - Lot 366

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(INVENTIONS--GEO. TRUNDLE ENGINEERING CO.)
Thick album with 149 professional photographs chronicling an arrangement of interesting and odd early 20th-century inventions.
Including a gumball stamping machine and gumball counter, a meat cutter, ice cream serving device (and dedicated freezer), Projectorgraph, golf ball compression tester, a stocking stretcher, and a machine for welding rubber onto wheels. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), linen backed, each with a numeric notation, in pencil, on verso that corresponds to a blueprint index in the front of the album, identifying all the functional and bizarre contraptions. Oblong 4to, brown leatherette with a gilt-lettered company name; twin-bolt binding. 1930