If it exists,
we have found it.
A four-generation sourcing house for the improbable: vacuum tubes still bearing their factory getters, obsolete industrial parts that keep American factories running, brass microscopes on original mahogany bases, Victorian mourning brooches, and coin-operated fortune tellers that still take a penny.
Featured finds
Coin-operated fortune-teller by Mills Novelty Co., Chicago. Feeds a penny, dispenses one of 96 printed fortunes.
A 9-inch fragment of narwhal tusk, engraved with a whaleboat scene and inked in the manner of mid-century American scrimshaw.
Middle-of-the-line PLC-5 processor. 12K user words, 40 I/O racks. The one your legacy line was built around.
Custom-cut 4140 spur set to replace the reduction pair on a Bliss #21 press. 3:1 ratio, AGMA Q10.
What we keep
New-old-stock and tested pulls from the golden age of thermionics.
The replacement your discontinued machine needs, before it becomes a boat anchor.
The rigorous tools of practicing chemists, biologists, and surveyors — mostly pre-1970.
For cabinets, films, and the merely curious.
The apparatus of pre-electronic seeing and hearing.
Recent posts
There is a particular quiet that comes over the workroom when an old object is being brought back. It is not silence. It is something closer to attention.
The legal question and the ethical question are not the same question. We have written policies for both, and we would rather turn a sale away than confuse them.
For thirty years, the American arcade sold prophecy for a penny. Most of the machines are gone. The ones that survived have earned their aura the hard way.
Can’t find it? We will.
Tell us what you need — a specific tube, a discontinued PLC card, a particular Petzval lens, a matched pair of anything. Our network runs from Providence to Prague, and we have been doing this since 1923.