Late 19th Century Cummins Initial Machine stick MM - 105415 - 060223

MM - 105415 - 060223

a steam powered engine first manufactured in the 1860s

The casters can be locked in place

Superior Underwriters/Groniger & Co

Late 19th Century Cummins Initial Machine stick MM - 105415 - 060223c. 1890s; by B. F. Cummins Co. for J. B. Mast Co. New York Antique cast iron initial perforating machine. This piece was initially designed to aid clerks in canceling legal documents before Cummins took his design and partnered with the USPOD (United States Post Office Department) to use his machines to perforate initials on stamps. Machines based on this (and even salvaged Cummins machines) were later used to emboss leather and other goods. Has been