what is that this is a Reynolds 1910
envelope sealer
okay can you imagine if you work for the
power company licking closed few
thousand power bills a day you I
acquired it add in the state sale I'd
like to sell it because it's taking up
space in my house I'd like to get about
$400 I would probably spend the money on
a birthday present for my husband his
birthday's next week this is really neat
this is something that definitely made a
company's business easier when this
thing was in proper working order and
you had a great operator who was doing
50 to 100 envelopes a minute
I love it I mean there's things that
they did back then they don't do today I
mean you don't see gold leafing on
office equipment anymore and this right
here they could have made this for a
little less money but it wouldn't look
good and this time period aesthetics
were very very important in the early
1900s this envelope sealer was actually
pretty high-tech it eventually evolved
into an automatic version and today
those machines can do 15,000 envelopes
per hour
so how did this thing exactly work the
sticky part of the envelope would be
here fed through this way through there
yeah come out and then from what I
figured out was that you have to close
it push it through these other series of
rollers okay there we go
cool so you want to sell it
I'd like to yes how much you want for it
I was thinking about 400 it's more of a
decorator thing than it is a collector
thing you already mean weird little
things like this go for a couple hundred
bucks on this size I'll give you a
hundred for it can you do one hundred
and a half I'll tell you what I'll give
you 125 for 135 125 for it 135 what what
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just because I am a wonderful human
being
I will go 130 thanks alright follow me
we'll do some paperwork on okay I took a
hundred and thirty dollars for it
because I really just didn't want to
have to take it home again
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