Got this very cheap at a yard sale yesterday.

[multigraincracker]

Must weigh 25 pounds. Cool collectable or boat anchor>

found this. Close but smaller than the one I got.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. no image.... gotta be a link to an image on the internet

[multigraincracker]

2. Found that image but it won't post,

I'll try another.
thanks

[CurtEastPoint]

3. read this.

you are trying to do situation 1, described here:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/103659987

[multigraincracker]

4. Thanks, I found a youtube film of one

a little smaller. The one I have has about 3 more rows of numbers.

[multigraincracker]

5. The one in the video is electric.

Mine is not.

[CurtEastPoint]

6. That is mind boggling that someone could invent this!

[multigraincracker]

7. Found the one I have on youtube, here it is.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Very cool, my dear multigraincracker!

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]

9. It is a tank.

Cost me five bucks, scrape value.

[LakeArenal]

10. If you have an Amish business nearby, they would love to have it.

Since it’s not electric.

[multigraincracker]

14. Lots of Amish just north of me.

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]

15. Then you could return the deal. Nice.

[multigraincracker]

16. Be happy to give it to them,

if they weren't going to turn around and sell it.

[LakeArenal]

17. Oh I had friends that I found two manual calculators.

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]

18. No instructions so not sure

if it works well enough to use.

[Sneederbunk]

11. Is it a Burroughs?

[multigraincracker]

13. Monroe

[Chainfire]

12. I would have skipped my McDonalds fine dinner to buy that for $5.00.

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.