I deal in and sell antique & collectible office related antiques that date from near the turn of the 20th century or earlier.  On this page you will find a wide range of early office and general store related antiques from this era.  This includes things like early patented antique pencil sharpeners and antique typewriters.   We also deal in such things as vintage slide rules, calculators and early office furniture. 

When I first started looking for technological and office antiques some 30 years ago they were often considered by most to be just heavy weights, hidden in the corner of antique mall booths or under the table at antique shows.  Jokes abounded about anchors, ropes, dumpsters and such.

Those days are over and the word has spread. There are rare and valuable scientific & office related antiques and there are people who buy and collect them.  In general we deal in, and sell antique & collectible office and scientific related antiques that date from near the turn of the 20th century or earlier. 

Problem is, today everyone wants to sell their 1930's - 1950's era obsolete office stuff for big bucks because of the stories they have heard, or TV shows they have seen.  They just know that their old typewriter or adding machine is valuable, no matter the age, rarity, or condition.

The bad news  for potential sellers of this era stuff is that the anchor analogies, rope and heavy weight jokes pertain to many of these later pieces.  1930's or later used typewriters or electric calculators that have been sitting in the garage or in storage the last 40 years or so time has not yet come.  The market may change over time for this readily available and common later stuff but I will not be around to see it, and you probably will not be either.

On the other hand, the supply of good early (pre 1900) scientific related antiques, that was once available and reasonably priced, has now for all intent and purposes disappeared from the scene and the supply has about dried up. It is that era stuff that I am looking for today, and can help you sell. 

If you have a single antique or an entire collection of office and technology related antiques for sale that you think we may be interested in, please contact us at LCM@patented-antiques.com and we will get back to you ASAP.

Please see the FAQ page as well for more general info on this subject.  Thanks!!

If you have a single antique or an entire collection of office and technology related antiques for sale that you think we may be interested in, please contact us at LCM@patented-antiques.com and we will get back to you ASAP. Please see the FAQ  page as well for more general info on this subject.  Thanks!!

Individual titles below that are highlighted in yellow are Select New Additions or Special Gift Ideas.   Be sure to take a look!! Click any of the BLUE HEADINGS below for the description,  price and a couple pictures Please Note:  Pieces listed in Green do not have a link or pictures, but are offered for sale with a price on this page.

Antique & Vintage Calculators
Sliders & Dials
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• 1st Model Webb Adder w/ Wooden Back
• The Locke Adder
• The "Jeffers Calculator" for Determining Cattle Feed and Nutritional Values and Costs
• A. M. Stephenson Nickeled Adder
• Patented 1873 Stephenson / Simmons Oil City Pa Adder    SOLD
• 2 Different Webb Adders / Calculators
• Unusual Rolling Percentage Calculator
• Under the Counter Pull Out Discount Calculator
• Smallwood Calculator / Adder from Oakland CA
• The Standard Calcumeter 7 Place Mode w/ Reset Dial
• The Standard Calcumeter 7 Place Mode w/o Reset Dial
• The Standard Calcumeter 5 Place Model   SOLD
• The Standard Calcumeter for English Pounds   SOLD
• 3 Different Dial Adders

Antique & Vintage Calculators
Pinwheel & Drum
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• Type 2 Curta Calculator w/ Case & Paperwork
• Curta Type II Calculator w/ Box / Paperwork, & Original Guarantee  SUPER!!    SOLD!!
• Curta Type 1 Calculator
• Marchant Pin Wheel Design Calculator    SOLD!!
• "The Rapid" Calculator / Adder in Original Case
• Another one w/o case
• Comptator / Adder / Calculator
• American Adding Machine
• 2 Different Resulta Adding Machines / Calculators

Antique & Vintage Key Type
Calculators
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• "The Torpedo" German 5 Key Adding Machine
• Comptometer Adder /  Calculator
• Sharp Compet #16 Calculator
• Base 5 Adder / Calculator
• American Adding Machine
• Toy Adding Machine
• Little Giant Toy Adding Machine

Slide Rules

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• Type 1 Stanley Fuller Calculator / Slide Rule
• Rare Type 2 Fuller Spiral Calculator by Stanley
• K & E Keuffel & Esser #68-1749 Desk Top Slide Rule w/ Hard Case  (Presentation model)
• K & E Keuffel & Esser #1210 Slide Rule w/ Case / Manual & Box 
• Loga Cylindrical Slide Rule / Calculator
• French Circular Slide Rule
• A. Lietz SF. / German Made Merchants Slide Rule
• K & E 4095 Merchants Slide Rule w/ Frameless Cursor 
• Richardson c. 1909 Metal Slide Rule
• Fowler Long Scale Slide Rule in Original Hard Case
• Keuffel & Esser #4012 Thatcher's Patent Calculator / Slide Rule
• Precise Circular Adder /  Calculator
• Gestation & Farming Circular Calculator
• Photography Calculator Pencil 

Antique Typewriters

Typewriters are a another popular collectible in the Office Antique category, and again the more interesting and earlier models are becoming ever more difficult to find. To see a small sample of machines I have previously sold in the past and to get an idea of the types I am looking for please look at our Past Sales Archive at our sister site www.AntiqBuyer.com. . 

Now is the time to buy antique typewriters as their perceived values have done much the same as the NASDAQ in the recent past, withwild swings up and deep declines down after a few hungry, and money is no object, style buyers entered the market and were filled up. But as with the stock market I think we have seen the bottom, and when the business collectors of antique office memorabilia get their priorities and portfolios back on track, this sort of antique office collectible is again going to sell at a whole new level of price, to a whole new crop of interested buyers and the cycle will begin again. 

All the different styles and examples are a great example of a technology that went through some wild changes and stages of development to the keyboards hooked to a computer we have today.  Personally I can not imagine using a typewriter and not having spell check.

Antique Typewriters

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• Densmore #4 Up Stroke Typewriter w/ Carry Case
• Corona Folding Typewriter in Hard-shell Case
• "Standard" Aluminum Folding Typewriter in Hard-shell Case

Vintage & Antique Office Accessories
Staplers & More

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• The Ideal" Paper Fastener     SOLD!
• The Bump Hand Held Stapleless Fastener NOS in Box
• Hotchkiss #3 Nickel Plated Stapler
• Red & Black Hotchkiss Moderne Stapler
• "Novelty" Patented Stapler
• Brown Patent #5 Stapler

Patented & Mechanical
Antique Pencil Sharpeners & Check Protectors

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Antique mechanical Pencil Sharpeners or pointers that I am interested in and buy and  sell saw their heyday of innovative design and production during the period from about 1870 to 1910 or a bit later.  There are a myriad of patented designs and variations on designs available and they can make for an interesting and challenging category to collect.  Their availability has ebbed and flowed with the coming of the internet and so has their popularity. Our current inventory has been pretty much depleted, but we are still buying more unusual and interesting examples when we find them.  There are many many different versions available and you can see a pretty good selection of what I have sold in the past by visiting this pencil sharpener sales archive page at our sister website  In general we are seeking to buy any of those seen on the preceding page, but are even more interested in odd-ball mechanical and patented ones that are not shown.

Pencil Sharpeners & Check Protectors

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• Clamp-On Cast Iron Pencil Sharpener
• Another Version w/ Critter Head
• Nice US Automatic Pencil Sharpener in Original Box
• Goodell Perfect Pointer Wooden Pencil Sharpener   SOLD!
• Avanti Pencil Sharpener
• New Era Pencil Pointer
• Safeguard Model W Check Protector
• Model Y Safeguard Check Protector
• Protectograph Check Writer
• Abbott Automatic Patented Check Protector
• Wesley Check Protector

Early Electric Appliances
Fans / Motors & Steam Engines

Antique electric fans offer a glimpse into the quality and pride that went into the manufacture of products in  this country during aan earlier period in America's history. I still use a an early GE Pancake fan and a Westinghouse "Tank" fan, as well as an early electric Emerson fan around the house, and the way they work and look is a tribute to an earlier time.  A sense of pride was built into American made products and these 75-100 year old fans are a great example of the way things use to be.  It is no wonder these early testaments to quality and design stir collecting interest, or that they elicit positive comments from all who see them. Their operation, their look, have an air of quality about them not seen in today's products.

Early fans came in all sizes and shapes and some examples of ones I have sold in recent years can be found on this fan sales archive page at our sister website.   In addition to electrically powered AC and or DC powered fans, some early fans were also powered by other sources such as hot air, water, as well as early battery powered electric models.  I deal in and sell all of these early versions of vintage fans.

Most small or toy vintage electric motors resemble early larger antique steam and electric motors from the same time period or era and are open framed and or bi-polar in design.  Many of the electric motors that came with erector sets or with toy steam engines like Weeden and Bing are similar looking but there are earlier and more elaborate models that were used as demonstrators in classes or labs as well.  Others were sold in Novelty catalogs as working motors for small jobs.   In addition to electric motors there are also hot air models known as "flame lickers", and the steam driven motors / generators meant to be set up with boilers by such makers as Bing, Jensen, Plank and others.  

Names like Edison, Westinghouse, Tesla and a few others come to mind when  considering the introduction of electrical technology into our society.  These inventors and others were the driving force that led America into a new age of power and their early efforts and designs are both important and an interesting facet of our history and a reminder of what it used to be like.

Early Electric Appliances
Fans / Motors & Steam Engines

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• Lake Breeze Floor Model Hot Air Fan       SOLD!
• Edison 6 Volt Electric Fan Motor / Serial #15052         HOLD!
• Westinghouse 12" Electric Fan w/ Brass Blades & Cage   
• Sunbeam So-Ez Electric Sewing Machine Motor w/ Rheostat
• Franklin Sewing Machine Electric Motor
• Small Electro Magnetic Flywheel Motor
•  Miniature Edison Electric Motor       SOLD!
• 3 Early Light Bulbs and Sockets
• Vintage Colt 4 Way Extension Cord
• Antique Electric Trouble Light

Vintage Light Bulbs / Heaters
Early Electric Devices & More
Early Electric heaters are a collectible category that you can still find examples of and collect as it has not exactly "hot" or the idea has not fully caught on just yet.  With firewood at 300+ / cord, and the Chinese electric heaters sold at Wal-Mart having a life expectancy of 1 year or less, user interest  in these strange devices just might be rekindled.  Some of the earliest and most unusual antique electric heaters are getting more difficult to find and dealers are asking more for them, but in general all the many different designs of resistance heaters go begging and are routinely offered for reasonable prices.  The folks we got these from were way ahead of the curve and saw the potential.  They bought them right, and then stored them away in the barn for 30 or so years.

Light bulbs on the other hand have quite a following I guess due to Edison's name being associated with it.   While some folks were ransacking old houses for the hardware fixtures and larger things, a few people saw the light and were squirreling the old light bulbs away.

Vintage Light Bulbs / Heaters
Early Electric Devices & More

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• Antique Battery Powered Electric Quack Machine
• Electric 2 Bulb Heater
• Double Cone Electric Resistance Heater    SOLD
• Electric Resistance Heater
• Cone Electric Resistance Heater

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We want to Help you Sell Your quality Antiques

If you have a single antique, or a collection of antiques to sell please contact us at LCM@patented-antiques.com giving us your PHONE NUMBER  and other contact info and we will get back to you ASAP. 

To view examples of the types of antiques and collectibles we have previously sold and are always interested in helping you sell please visit our Past Sales Archive Pages at our sister website www.AntiqBuyer.com.

Please see our FAQ page, the Appraisal / Selling Page and the Selling Your Collection Pages for further info.

Thanks!!
Larry & Carole