A Cannon Pinion, 2 pieces (in a small circular metal container with lid.) Accompanying patent documentation in file). A part for inside a clock.
Cannon Pinion is the heart of the motion works. This piece translates the movement of the wheels on the back into the time keeping display on the front.
A "Galena 'Catwhisker' Wireless Detector" used in early crystal radio. Precision crystal detector with iron pyrite crystal, used in commercial wireless stations.
Mounted on a 3/5-inch square, .5-inch high with beveled edge. 2.5-inch glass tube secured between metal pieces. Screw on side of metal bracket can be removed to uncover the glass tube.
Broadside: Notice of Public Sale - 1 story brick dwelling, estate of Thomas M'Caslin. December 26, 1829, at 3 p.m. at public house of Bernard M'Gonigle.
Easter egg decorated by David B. Landis for his wife Bertha Cochran Landis for Easter of 1931. White chicken egg, with contents intact, is covered with inked inscriptions printed by hand. Two arrows are drawn at "To" of "To / Bertha / Cochran / Landis / From / David / Bachman / Landis / at / 38 East / Chestnut / Street / Lancaster / Pa. " Written vertically is "EASTER 1931". On one end is "An Egg in the hand is worth two in the nest" and the opposite end has "The hen that laid this egg ought to see her product now!"
Housed in a fitted lid square cardboard box covered with colored and textured paper except for the gold textured lid. The underside of lid has pink satin-covered cardboard cutout that accomodates egg shape. Scrap of pink paper inside is a note written in cursive with blue ink: "Easter Egg - Decorated by David B. Landis 1931 for me - Bertha Cochran Landis. Handle with care".