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This was posted on our local history Facebook page. I think the machine in the lower left corner is either a music machine or a peep show type of device. Any ideas?
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What is this shown in this old photo?
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What is this shown in this old photo?
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Re: What is this shown in this old photo?
I can see know that it has a viewer on the front. How about that thing the guy is leaning on?
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Re: What is this shown in this old photo?
Haven't I seen this photo on another thread on here some time ago ?
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Re: What is this shown in this old photo?
The machine in the foreground appears to be plugged into the electricity supply, and the second machine appears to be identical.
As the premises are a bar rather than a shop, it is likely that these are amusement machines. What the butler saw?
As the premises are a bar rather than a shop, it is likely that these are amusement machines. What the butler saw?
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Re: What is this shown in this old photo?
I’m probably way off, but I vote for “peanut roaster”...
(Hmmm, but why would there be two of them?)
(Hmmm, but why would there be two of them?)
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Re: What is this shown in this old photo?
Sorta looks like a hand crank near the top and front of that machine - maybe to wind a film? Or souvenir penny smasher! 
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Re: What is this shown in this old photo?
Looks like a version of a Caille Bros. ‘Cail-O-Scope’.
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Re: What is this shown in this old photo?
Pretty sure the machine in the foreground is a Mills Quart-O-Scope
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Re: What is this shown in this old photo?
It might be a Mills Quartoscope Auto-Stereoscope Flip Card Viewer, like shown below. I think Shawn beat me to it...
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Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
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Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
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Re: What is this shown in this old photo?
You are correct Curt. It is a Mills Quartoscope. A flip card viewer.
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