Sale 2520 | Lot 366

(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

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