35mm motion picture film synchronizer used for - well - synchro-
nizing 35mm motion picture film! To be more specific, it's used for syncing up dailies or matching the original camera negative to the edited work print or lining up soundtracks or just counting footage or - stuff like that. Manufactured by Moviola (TM) (General Service Corperation, Hollywood, CA), this one is an "SYB" model and carries the serial # 1039. The footage counter (shown in the inset) was manufactured by the Vedeer Corperation of Hartford, CT. Just guessing at it's age, I'd say it was made in the late 1930's or early 1940's. I'd gladly welcome a correction.xxxxxx
Decidedly low tech, this 5 inch long, brass sight-level has a certain elegance not usually present in more modern instruments. The legend stamped on the shaft reads, "Hughs Owens & Co., Montreal & Winn peg" (sic).

Encased in the chrome plated chamber on top is a glass tube containing alcohol and an air bubble (spirit level). Inside the shaft is a mirror at a 45 degree angle angle which allows the user to see the bubble when sighting through the peephole at the rear. All one had to do was to fasten, say, a 2x4 to an upright on one end, place the level on top of the wood, sight through the peephole and line the bubble up with the horizontal guage in the front of the instrument. The 2x4 was level!. Probably from the 1930's or 40's.

If I had to choose one tool I would like to have with me if I were stranded on a desert island, it would be this one. Not so much because of it's usefulness in constructing a shelter, but because you could always break the glass and drink the alcohol.
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This is a navigation tool, parallel rulers. Made of ivory and brass, it is six inches in length and appears to be quite old. The bevelled edges suggest that it was meant to be used with pen and ink.
Graceful old wagon wheel standing about 4.5 feet tall. Actually, they're still quite common around these parts but it struck us that it appears to be the same type of wheel pictured in another of our exhibits, the tintype on page one of "Garbage as Art". As both were found in the same town, we wondered if it was possible that the wheel is the same one in...nah!...ya think?...maybe?
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Meinecke Bed Pan with a patent date of 1900.
Knickerbocker Beer carton circa 1960(?)
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Mechanical floor jack from the 1930's.
Antique clam rake.
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Japanese artifact of leather, bronze,ivory and ebony. The narrow leather sheath holds a curved ebony stick about 9" long and incised with an "X" on one end. So far, no information has surfaced as to what this was used for.
Ebony stick removed from the sheath. Inset shows "X".
Close-up of "X"
Multicolored bronze(?) medallion on pouch showing a sumo wrestler grappling with a bear.
Ivory finial attached to the pouch by a multistranded bronze chain.
Reverse of ivory finial with a bronze inset showing what appears to be two noblemen warriors at a table with a servant in attendance.
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Meat Press appears to be about 80 years old.
Antique Chid's Tub
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Wall mounted brackets for storing saddles.
Classic home use wine press.
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Mid 20th Century thermostat made by Minneapolis-Honeywell. The heart of the instrument is a "3 day-7 Jewel" mechanical clock that triggered the heating system according to time of day and the temperature in the vicinity of the sensor, a coiled "sandwich" made of two metals of differing thermal sensitivity.

The white squares are 1" x 1" .
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When relatively cheap, color lithography became widely available, elaborately rendered, fanciful lables were commissioned by many produce packers to promote their brands. Pasted to shipping crates, the labels found their way around the country and were largely ignored or regarded as crude or garrish, and poor examples of commercial illustration. But just as with so many other things, there were some people who found the colorful lithographs interesting and even beautiful and in recent years, pristine examples of old labels are aggressively sought after by collectors around the world. Shown above: Label for 4/5 bushel crate for California grown Bartlett pears.
Antique brass cigarette lighter. (1920's?)
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