Identification of...thing

>>28451543
It's a broken typewriter.

>>28451543
if those conduct electricity properly it's properly a switchboard of some kind

or it could be a musical instrument

>>28451563

This

looks like the remnants of an old typewriter

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>>28451563
I have strong doubts. It doesn't look like any typewriter i ever seen.

>>28451563
>>28451574
>>28451582
They say it's way too big to be a typewriter. I haven't seen it in person.

>>28451543
Typewriter.

>>28451543
Piano?

>>28451589
Well of course it doesn't look like a typewriter, it's the board on which the keys rest, seperated from the mechanical components.

>>28451600
It looks like it's on the edge of a fountain. Typewriters are huge, dude. But maybe it's from an old cash register, which were typically bigger.

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>>28451641
>mfw

naw, they ain't all that big

>>28451665
I guess it is just an adding machine, not a cash register.

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>>28451543

>>28451665
Well that component isn't from a 70's - 80's typewriter, dorkus. It's rusted to shit, probably 30's or 40's, maybe 20's, and typewriters from that era used to take up a third of someone's desk.

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>>28451739
>mfw

this adding machine is from the 20's nigger

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Burroughs-5-Column-Adding-Machine-Class-3-Model-301-1920s-/161411615178?hash=item2594e1c9ca:g:On0AAOSwGvhUBgss

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>>28451543

>>28451777
It could be the first example of digital memory missing some important components for all I can fucking tell.

>>28451766
Yeah, but it's an adding machine. Not a typewriter or cash register. From what I can tell from the shitty photos, it's a different shape from typical typewriters and registers, which match the shape of OP's component.

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>>28451543

>>28451543
Looks like /k/ isn't all it's cracked up to be...

>>28452117

/k/'s expertise is with on weapons and military equipment, not peices of junk dug out of some cowfield in europe.

It might be some peice of military equipment, it might also be fucking nothing.

>>28452117
turret control for a tank?

>>28452117
If you aren't impressed take it to reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing and get out of our hair.

Some kind of communication piece. Old style rotary/bell phones have a similar mechanism.