Salesman Sample Mechanical Armature with Large Brass Ratcheting Gears (Partial) tiny wooden shelf It is in vintage excellent

It is in vintage excellent condition

or whoever accepted it in lieu of 5 cents

a good little object I think

Fabulous at the center of the dining table

Salesman Sample Mechanical Armature with Large Brass Ratcheting Gears (Partial) tiny wooden shelf It is in vintage excellentI'm guessing this was a salesman sample for an industrial strength clothes ringer dryer or something along those lines, as I've seem a few with a similar sort of standing armature holding a rotating dowel at center, most of those with a crank arm on the side. Here, though, are these quite large sawtooth brass gears, which operate via ratcheting, and make the most completely satisfying sound as they do. As the gears turn so does that center dowel,