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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?
Dave D

I can see know that it has a viewer on the front. How about that thing the guy is leaning on?

Haven't I seen this photo on another thread on here some time ago ?

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?

I’m probably way off, but I vote for “peanut roaster”...

(Hmmm, but why would there be two of them?)

Sorta looks like a hand crank near the top and front of that machine - maybe to wind a film? Or souvenir penny smasher!

Looks like a version of a Caille Bros. ‘Cail-O-Scope’.

Pretty sure the machine in the foreground is a Mills Quart-O-Scope

It might be a Mills Quartoscope Auto-Stereoscope Flip Card Viewer, like shown below. I think Shawn beat me to it...

You are correct Curt. It is a Mills Quartoscope. A flip card viewer.
Kurt M
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