Gorgeous c. 1873 Patented Mechanical Grain Counter in Old Blue Paint canister shot heads 2 1/2" to 3"

heads 2 1/2" to 3" wide

makes me think this more toward the earlier rather than later 19th c

perhaps I am wrong and they stand for something else entirely

which makes it seem as if it could function as a butter stamp as well

Gorgeous c. 1873 Patented Mechanical Grain Counter in Old Blue Paint canister shot heads 2 1/2" to 3"I am completely smitten with this thing, in significant part due just to the looks of it, but also for the pure pleasure of pulling the lever and watching the sawtoothed, numbered disks tick forward, with ten ticks on the left dial advancing the middle one, and a hundred ticks finally advancing the right dial one tick. Gorgeous black painted stenciled numbers against creamy white, and old blue paint on the box. To me, satisfying on every level and one