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The pictured item is 29 inches high by 11-1/2 inches wide.
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Answer from Kovels: Pictured is an Edison Ediphone dictating machine on a stand with casters, c.1930s.
A wild guess….. A Mimeograph machine? It looks galvanized, like a lot of vintage office furniture, desks and etc. I remember seeing one of the machines in grade school, in Detroit MI. in the 1960’s, and it looked sort of like this?. All of us kids loved the smell of those homework sheets. Each time we’d get our homework papers, we’d all sniff the ink first! LOL.
@garioki;
I had no idea they were still around!
Perhaps we can go 50/50 and record messages to send to each other (;
It looks like a tabletop mimeograph machine, similar to the floor models I used in high school. I hated using them because of the migraine-inducing fumes.
I can’t wait to find out!
Portable Rolodex or
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Early paper shredder. Shredded paper is held in the bottom.
A bun warmer! Just the right height for sitting, this device from the 1920’s featured the use of that new-fangled thing Edison called
“e-lec-tricity.” Used mostly in the northern states, it was an essential item for those dedicated farmers who, on chilly mornings, squeezed milk into those skinny quart bottles that were to be left on our front porch. When the farmer was done relieving mama cow of her excess milk, they would treat themselves to a hot toddy and a sit-down on the best friend a well digger ever had.
Looks like it could be a stamp dispenser.
Yes, an Edison Ediphone.
An office Dictaphone from about 1940, had a hose-like device for speaking into.
Looks like a BBQ grill to me
Looks like an Edison Ediphone & transcription machine. Circa 1912. Used in businesses to record dictation for playback later.
Possibly a sterilizer for dental or doctors instruments.
Mailbox
As Mzgti2u said, it’s a 1930s EDISON Voicewriter Ediphone Wax Cylinder Recording Dictaphone. There is one with many more pics currently on Ebay. https://www.ebay.com/itm/174204346421
Autoclave for sterilizing dental or other medical tools.
Autoclave for sterilizing dental or or medical equipment
Looks like a small compost bin.
It is an Edison ediphone!
In the top half there is a wax cylinder that would record vibration from someone’s voice. The cabinet below would store other wax cylinders.
It would be more interesting if we saw the entire cabinet and parts.
There was also a “transcription” machine to play back the wax cylinder recording.