Gorgeous c. 1873 Patented Mechanical Grain Counter in Old Blue Paint silverplate Napier cup with animals revealing itself to be shaped

revealing itself to be shaped like a book

this old cast iron fisted hand weighs nearly 4 pounds

hand-etched with an jam-packed array of Freemasonry symbols

with some light age toning/spotting and overall wear

I think the more one looks at and for things

Gorgeous c. 1873 Patented Mechanical Grain Counter in Old Blue Paint silverplate Napier cup with animals revealing itself to be shapedI am completely smitten with this thing, in significant part due just to the looks of it, but also for the pure pleasure of pulling the lever and watching the sawtoothed, numbered disks tick forward, with ten ticks on the left dial advancing the middle one, and a hundred ticks finally advancing the right dial one tick. Gorgeous black painted stenciled numbers against creamy white, and old blue paint on the box. To me, satisfying on every level and one