1901 · Amount Protection Device · Werk 728 von 1.871

A protective amount-marking machine of 1901 on the oak table behind the money order window of a post office in the United States, a long flat body of black enamelled cast iron forty centimetres long, twenty-one wide and eleven high, with a rounded barrel-shaped back, along its top a narrow cream-yellow scale strip with fine graduation marks, at its side a rectangular bright metal table on which a narrow slip of pale blue paper lies flat, seen edge-on, at the front left a short lever, one hand in a dark sleeve on the lever, behind it the brass grille of the counter window, gaslight and daylight from the left.